Installing OpenStack-Cinder (Icehouse) on Ubuntu 14.04

Install OpenStack setup using the link https://fosskb.in/2014/04/12/openstack-icehouse-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-single-machine-setup/

Install Cinder services

apt-get install cinder-api cinder-scheduler cinder-volume lvm2

Create database and credentials for Cinder

mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cinder;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cinder.* TO 'cinder'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'cinder_dbpass';
quit;

Create Cinder related keystone entries

keystone user-create --name=cinder --pass=cinder_pass --email=cinder@example.com
keystone user-role-add --user=cinder --tenant=service --role=admin
keystone service-create --name=cinder --type=volume --description="OpenStack Block Storage"
keystone endpoint-create --service=cinder --publicurl=http://10.0.0.1:8776/v1/%\(tenant_id\)s --internalurl=http://10.0.0.1:8776/v1/%\(tenant_id\)s --adminurl=http://10.0.0.1:8776/v1/%\(tenant_id\)s
keystone service-create --name=cinderv2 --type=volumev2 --description="OpenStack Block Storage v2"
keystone endpoint-create --service=cinderv2 --publicurl=http://10.0.0.1:8776/v2/%\(tenant_id\)s --internalurl=http://10.0.0.1:8776/v2/%\(tenant_id\)s --adminurl=http://10.0.0.1:8776/v2/%\(tenant_id\)

Edit /etc/cinder/cinder.conf and replace all the lines with the following.

[DEFAULT]
rootwrap_config = /etc/cinder/rootwrap.conf
api_paste_confg = /etc/cinder/api-paste.ini
iscsi_helper = tgtadm
volume_name_template = volume-%s
volume_group = cinder-volumes
verbose = True
auth_strategy = keystone
state_path = /var/lib/cinder
lock_path = /var/lock/cinder
volumes_dir = /var/lib/cinder/volumes
rpc_backend = cinder.openstack.common.rpc.impl_kombu
rabbit_host = 10.0.0.1
rabbit_port = 5672
rabbit_userid = guest
glance_host = 10.0.0.1

[database]
connection = mysql://cinder:cinder_dbpass@10.0.0.1/cinder

[keystone_authtoken]
auth_uri = http://10.0.0.1:5000
auth_host = 10.0.0.1
auth_port = 35357
auth_protocol = http
admin_tenant_name = service
admin_user = cinder
admin_password = cinder_pass

Sync the database

cinder-manage db sync

Create physical volume

pvcreate /dev/sdb

Create volume group named “cinder-volumes”

vgcreate cinder-volumes /dev/sdb

Restart all the Cinder services

service cinder-scheduler restart;service cinder-api restart;service cinder-volume restart;service tgt restart

Create a volume to test the setup

cinder create --display-name myVolume 1

List the volume created

cinder list
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
|                  ID                  |   Status  | Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable | Attached to |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+
| e19242b5-8caf-4093-9b81-96d6bb1f7000 | available |   myVolume   |  1   |     None    |  false   |             |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+--------------+------+-------------+----------+-------------+