This post is the start of a few posts that will setup a CloudStack environment from scratch then get it to the point where you have advanced networking configured and deploying vm instances. The step of course is to get CloudStack installed. This is pretty easy to do using the cldstk-deploy tool from github. Create a vm and follow the instructions on github to get cldstk-deploy installed and ready to deploy CloudStack environments. The basic steps are shown below.

Setting up the environment

First you will need to have a single VM with CentOS 6.5 for the cldstk-deploy tool.

1. Download cldstk-deploy from Github.

   yum install git -y
   git clone https://github.com/thehyperadvisor/cldstk-deploy.git

2. Setup cldstk-deploy using the “setup all” option. This prepares the environment and installs all the required packages for cldstk-deploy (nodejs and ansible).

   cd cldstk-deploy
   python cldstk-deploy.py setup all

3. Download the Apache Cloudstack RPMS using the “get rpmversion=” option.

   python cldstk-deploy.py get rpmversion=4.4

4. Download KVM system template.

   python cldstk-deploy.py get systemtemplate=4.4

Now lets deploy CloudStack

RPM packages and system templates must be in downloaded first as shown above. Create 3x VMs or have physical servers configured with:

• 1x CentOS 6.5, 1GB RAM, 1 CPU for CloudStack Management Server
• 2x CentOS 6.5, 4GB RAM, 2 CPU, 2 NICs for KVM Hosts MUST HAVE VT ENABLED PROCESSORS
• 1X NFS Server with a “primary” and “secondary” mount point configured.

1. Browse the cldstk-deploy directory then run the command below.

  python cldstk-deploy.py

2. This will start asking questions from the command prompt. Next all you have to do is answer the questions. Follow as shown below.

Enter Password Here: <——- ENTER ROOT PASSWORD

Install all-in-one?Y/n: n
Install Primary Database Server?Y/n: y
Db Serverdns/ip: 192.168.2.57 <— IP/DNS OF MANAGEMENT SERVER
Configure Database Replica?Y/n: n
Install Primary Management Server?Y/n: y
Serverdns/ip: 192.168.2.57 <— IP/DNS OF MANAGEMENT SERVER
Install additional Management servers?Y/n: n
Install KVM Hosts?Y/n: y
Comma separated list: 192.168.2.30,192.168.2.43 <— IP/DNS OF KVM SERVERS
Install System Templates?Y/n: y
NFS Serverdns/ip: 192.168.2.39 <— IP/DNS OF MANAGEMENT SERVER
NFS Path/nfsdirpath: /mnt/volume1/secondary <— PATH TO NFS SECONDARY
Change install type to “Internet”?Y/n: n
Which version to install4.2, 4.3, 4.4?: 4.4
Add ssh rsa keys to /.ssh/knownhosts?Y/n: y
ansible hosts file successfully writing to disk…..
varsfile successfully writing to disk…..
192.168.2.57 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH5.3
192.168.2.30 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH5.3
192.168.2.43 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH5.3
Create Basic Zone?Y/n: n
No Basic Zone will be created
Start installation now?Y/n: y

3. The deployment will begin and when it’s all done you should see the following with no failures.

TASK: [Ensure  NFS storage is mounted] **************************************** 
changed: [192.168.2.57]
TASK: [Seed secondary storage] ************************************************ 
changed: [192.168.2.57]
192.168.2.57 {'unreachable': 0, 'skipped': 13, 'ok': 56, 'changed': 37, 'failures': 0}
192.168.2.43 {'unreachable': 0, 'skipped': 0, 'ok': 25, 'changed': 19, 'failures': 0}
192.168.2.30 {'unreachable': 0, 'skipped': 0, 'ok': 25, 'changed': 19, 'failures': 0}
127.0.0.1 {'unreachable': 0, 'skipped': 6, 'ok': 14, 'changed': 4, 'failures': 0}

4. Once done you should be able to login into your CloudStack management server using the url “http://managementserver:8080/client”.

Here is a video of the process.

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Antone Heyward