IBM Cloud Orchestrator, Version 2.5

[Advanced] Configuring the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack servers

After you install IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, you must configure the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack installation for IBM® Cloud Orchestrator. Follow this procedure if you did an advanced IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack installation and you did not use a prescribed topology for KVM or VMware.

About this task

The commands and scripts that are mentioned in the following topics are sample commands and sample scripts that are provided with IBM Cloud Orchestrator and that are done for an IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack installation using a prescribed topology for KVM or VMware. If you did not use a prescribed topology, you might need to modify these scripts for your installation. For information about prescribed configurations, see Deploying with KVM or QEMU compute nodes and Deploying with VMware compute nodes.

IBM Cloud Orchestrator uses the simple token enhancement that is already part of IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack. Before you install IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, see the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack documentation for information about how to configure the simple token.

The samples scripts and additional files can be found in the /opt/ico_install/V2500/utils/scripts directory after you extract the contents of the IBM Cloud Orchestrator image files, as described in Downloading the required image files.

To prepare your IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack servers, run the following procedure.

Note: You must run this procedure every time that IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack is updated. For more information, see Reconfiguring IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack after updates.

Procedure

  1. Copying the IBM Cloud Orchestrator scripts to the OpenStack servers.
  2. Stopping all the OpenStack services except Keystone.
  3. Adding roles, users, and projects to Keystone.
  4. Installing the IBM Cloud Orchestrator extensions for Horizon.
  5. Configuring V3 API endpoints for Keystone.
  6. Configuring the OpenStack services to use the Keystone V3 API.
  7. Starting all the OpenStack services and restarting Keystone.
  8. [Optional] Configuring security groups.

What to do next

After you prepare the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack servers, continue the IBM Cloud Orchestrator installation by following the procedure in Setting and validating the deployment parameters.