Openstack - The Journey
There is a TON to know about Openstack. I tend to want to understand how software works under the hood before I care as much about how to use it. Openstack is so vast though that I ended up kinda doing these in parallel. Training videos are helpful but without a sandbox they really only provide a high level understanding. Installing The first thing to know about openstack is that it is not one piece of software, it is a collection of projects that are designed to integrate. There are a few required for basic function and others, like Heat, are popular but not required. The other thing to know is that it is designed to be installed on 3 nodes, although it can be installed on a single machine. I spend a good amount of time trying to figure out how to install openstack and reading several methods which I later figured out are more opinions of the best way. You can purchase openstack as a service from some cloud providers like openmetal (which sponsors a lot of youtube videos), but if yo
