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Published inAug 2016

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ISBN-139781786462664

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OpenStack

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Dan Radez

Connecting to your Overcloud

Finally, before we dig into looking at the OpenStack components that have been installed and configured, let's identify three ways that you can connect to the freshly installed overcloud deployment:

From the undercloud: This is the quickest way to access the overcloud. When the overcloud deployment completed, a file named overcloudrc was created. In Chapter 2, Identity Management, we will investigate this file in more detail. Throughout the rest of the book, this method will be used.
Install the client libraries: Both RDO Triple-O and Packstack were installed from the RDO release repository. By installing this release repository, in the same way that was demonstrated earlier for Packstack on another computer, the OpenStack client libraries can be installed on that computer. If these libraries are installed on a computer that can route the network the overcloud was installed on then the overcloud can be accessed from that computer the same as it can from the undercloud. This is helpful if you do not want to be tied to jumping through the undercloud node to access the overcloud:
```
laptop# sudo yum install -y http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/rdo-release.rpm
laptop# sudo yum install python-openstackclient
```

In addition to the client package, you will also need the overcloudrc file from the undercloud.

As an example, you can install the packages on the host machine you have just run quickstart.sh and make the overcloud routable by adding an IP address to the OVS bridge the virtual machines were attached to:

myhost# sudo ip addr add 192.0.2.222/24 dev bridget
myhost# sudo ip link set up dev bridget

Once this is done, the commands in the subsequent chapters could be run from the host machine instead of the undercloud virtual machine.

The OpenStack dashboard: OpenStack's included web interface is called the dashboard. Each chapter in this book will conclude by walking through how to complete the same action from the command-line interface with the web interface, if the functionality exists. In the installation you have just completed, you can access the overcloud's dashboard by first running the two ip commands used in the second of the preceding commands, then connecting to the IP address indicated as the overcloud endpoint but on port 80 instead of 5000:
```
http://192.0.2.6/.
```

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Author (1)

Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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