Deploy on OpenStack

The guide provides a step-by-step documentation on how to deploy NEST Desktop on OpenStack resources. For more information on OpenStack, please follow this link: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/openstack.

As an example of an OpenStack infrastructure, we show the deployment on bwCloud, which is assigned to the universities in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. For more information bwCloud, follow the link: https://www.bw-cloud.org/.

Deployers can build an OpenStack image via Packer and Ansible.

Requirements

• Packer
• Ansible (2.3.2.0 or newer)

Deploy NEST Desktop on bwCloud

You can find the source code on https://github.com/nest-desktop/nest-desktop-bwCloud.

1. Download the OpenStack RC File from bwCloud dashboard:

Project -> API Access -> Download OpenStack RC File

2. Source the RC file to login:

source Project_<userID>-openrc.sh

3. Modify the Ansible configurations in infrastructure/bwCloud/nest-desktop.json.

Set image_name. Values for source_image and networks are taken from bwCloud dashboard.

4. Build an image on bwCloud:

packer build nest-desktop.json

5. Start an instance on the bwCloud dashboard and it will have a public IP of the virtual machine.

Acknowledgements

Thanks for the help to integrate NEST Desktop on bwCloud:

• Bernd Wiebelt
• Jonathan Bauer
• Michael Janczyk
• Manuel Messner
• Christopher Ill