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03 - Manual OpenStack installation guide with Vagrant

Introduction and scope In this series, I will show you how to manually deploy a minimal OpenStack installation on a lab of virtual machines managed with Vagrant. We’ll use Caracal 2024.1, the latest available in Ubuntu’s stable repositories. The goal is not to provide a production solution, but to understand the components, key configuration files, and the correct deployment order so that a basic cloud works with Keystone, Glance, Placement, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, and Horizon.

Sunday, November 23, 2025 | 3 minutes Read
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04 - Environment deployment and preparation

First, we need to bring up our environment. As mentioned in the previous post, clone my repository: git clone git@github.com:javierasping/openstack-vagrant-ansible.git git clone https://github.com/javierasping/openstack-vagrant-ansible.git Once cloned, everything related to these posts is in the manual-install directory, so cd into it. Bring up the machines with Vagrant Inside the repository you’ll find the Vagrantfile. Simply run: vagrant up After launching, make sure the machines are up: vagrant status Current machine states: controller01 running (libvirt) compute01 running (libvirt) storage01 running (libvirt) To connect to the VMs, you can use:

Sunday, November 23, 2025 | 4 minutes Read