MiniONE is an easy to use deployment tool to build an evaluation OpenNebula cloud based on either KVM or LXD (Linux containers). All necessary components to manage and run the virtual machines or containers are installed and configured on your dedicated system with just a single command run.
- for KVM evaluation:
- dedicated physical host
- operating system: CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10 or Debian 9
- for LXD evaluation:
- dedicated virtual machine (*) or physical host
- operating system: Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10
- min. 2 GiB RAM
- min. 20 GiB free space on disk
- fresh default installation of the operating system with the latest updates
- privileged user access (
root
)
(*) For example MiniONE allows to easily build a LXD/OpenNebula environment on an Amazon VM. The minimal recommended size is perhaps t2.medium. Just give it at least 25GB disk space and allow access to the 9869 TCP where the WebUI is running.
Download the latest release of the minione
script, run it and follow the instructions on the terminal.
Run:
sudo bash minione
Run:
sudo bash minione --lxd
If the deployment ends succesfully, you now have your OpenNebula all-in-one evaluation environment ready to use! On the terminal, you'll see a deployment report with login information.
- enable OpenNebula repository
- install OpenNebula frontend and KVM or LXD hypervisor
- prepare networking for virt. machines (bridge
minionebr
) - configure firewall to provide NAT for virt. machines
- run private DNS server for virt. machines (
dnsmasq
) - start OpenNebula and prepare user, virt. networks, datastores
- import CentOS 7 virtual machine appliance
The evaluation deployment tool comes with default parameters suitable for most cases. You can list all the deployment parameters by running:
sudo bash minione --help
Start a verbose deployment and setup LXD envirnoment instead of KVM:
sudo bash minione --verbose --lxd
Start a verbose deployment and set own password for the default OpenNebula user:
sudo bash minione --verbose --password MySecretPassword
Specify OpenNebula virtual private network IP range for new deployment:
sudo bash minione --vnet-address 192.168.100.0 --vnet-gateway 192.168.100.1 --vnet-ar-ip-start 192.168.100.2
Once the minione is done, you will get an overview how to connect to the web interface similar to following:
### Report
OpenNebula 5.8 was installed
Sunstone (the webui) is runninng on:
http://192.168.100.101:9869/
Use following to login:
user: oneadmin
password: o6ARsMAdGe
After the minione finishes, the first thing we are going to do is to log in as oneadmin to take a look at the Admin View of Sunstone, which has more options than the other Sunstone views for a regular users.
Take a look at all the already bootstrapped resources in the cloud.
With the Admin View you can do anything in OpenNebula, but you don’t want all those options for the final users! Switch to the Cloud View to see how a final user will see OpenNebula:
The Cloud View interface is much simpler and targeted at end users.
Create a new Virtual Machine by clicking the +
button. Select the only available template and click Create
.
After clicking create you will be taken to the dashboard where you can see your running VMs.
You can click on your VM and manage it: access it through VNC, Save its state, Reboot it, etc:
Clicking on the Console icon will let you login into the VM. The default credentials are:
Login: root Password: opennebula
With the oneadmin role you can customize what your cloud users can do and see.
You need to connect to the server either using the web console or using ssh. OpenNebula runs as the oneadmin user, and the main administrator should run commands as that user, therefore the first thing you need to do is to switch to oneadmin:
su - oneadmin
From the oneadmin account you can see all the already bootstrapped resources:
onehost list
There is one network created
$ onevnet list
You can see the leases and the specific configuration of the network
$ onevnet show 0
A Centos image has been created
$ oneimage list
A Virtual Machine template is registered
$ onetemplate list
You can see the template configuration if further detail
$ onetemplate show 0
OpenNebula comes with predefined MarketPlace where you can get a lot of prepared images (Apps).
There are various Linux distributions: Alpine, Centos, Debian etc and also some service images with preconfigured applications, like WordPress or GitLab.
You can also check LinuxContainers.org
, the LXD marketplace, backed by the public LXD image server.
Then get back to the Apps
and try to search for LXD
. LinuxContainers.org
provides plenty of LXD containers which you can download to the datastore and try it.
We can try some quite fresh Ubuntu.
And Download it to the datastore.
Now when you go to the Template -> VMs
section you can instantiate it.
This is just a quick overview to get you started with OpenNebula. If you liked it, you may want to check the OpenNebula documentation for more information on how to deploy OpenNebula in your infrastructure and a detailed version of the OpenNebula features.
Logs are located in /var/log/one. Be sure to check that in order to troubleshoot. If you need assistance, head out to our forum.
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