OpenStack Tutorial for Beginners
OpenStack is an open source cloud computing infrastructure software that can be used to manage and control large scale deployments of virtual machines or to manage storage and networking resources in a cloud. Many organizations are turning to OpenStack because it is scalable, reliable, and grants you a great degree of control over the underlying infrastructure.
First time learning about OpenStack? Check out our What is OpenStack page.
OpenStack, But Easy
Despite the many pros of OpenStack, some users are hesitant to switch over because of its reputation for being complex to navigate and difficult to set up. Much of this complexity comes from the vast options of building blocks available to build your cloud on OpenStack. Some users prefer to have a pre-built cloud with less functionality instead of having full creative control on building a completely custom cloud that fits their needs and excludes options they don’t need. But, when you only pay for what you need/use with OpenStack providers such as OpenMetal, the price difference between OpenStack and private clouds is making it increasingly difficult for organizations to ignore.
The team at OpenMetal wanted to make it easier for everyone to understand the fundamentals of OpenStack and the basics of setting up and managing your own cloud. To accomplish this goal, we provided a grant to FreeCodeCamp which allowed them to create an OpenStack Tutorial for Beginners! This is meant to be the first of a series of tutorials. You can expect more in-depth tutorials in the future.
What to Expect from the Tutorial
In this tutorial, Beau Carnes of FreeCodeCamp uses the OpenMetal Platform to set up and administer OpenStack and discusses some of the commonly used OpenStack services. Beau answers some of the key questions you may have about OpenStack:
- What is the difference between OpenStack and AWS?
- What does OpenStack offer?
- What services are available in OpenStack?
- How to Set up SSH Access
- How to access your cloud?
- How to get into the OpenStack dashboard (Horizon) with the administrator password?
- How to create instances?
- How to run OpenStack Commands?
- How Private Clouds are Deployed?
- More…
At the end of this tutorial, you should know enough to be able to experiment with other OpenStack features on your own.
Step 1 – Request Your Cloud Trial
The best part about this tutorial is that you can follow along and set up your own cloud for FREE! Yes, you read that right, OpenMetal is allowing individuals and organizations to use our production ready on-demand OpenStack clouds for free so that you can test out the features and follow along with the tutorial. Access to the same software used in Free Code Camp’s OpenStack tutorial so that what you learn can be immediately translated into actions.
Step 2 – Follow Along with Tutorial
You can follow along with the video tutorial below from FreeCodeCamp YouTube Channel.
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