The Technology Chronicle

Creating Yaml templates that assign floating IPs to your instances being spawned can be a bit tricky.Let us look at a scenario where we need to spin up a VM, assign a floating IP from a pool and make reference to this floating IP in your userdata as well. We will make use of the network ID of the internal and external network, as well as the Subnet ID of the internal network The logical workflow is as follows:   Create a port resource using internal network and internal subnet IDs Create a floating IP resource , referring to the external network ID   Associate the floating IP to the port   In the server resource being created, associate the port resource   Now we will see how this can be implemented using both HOT and AWS template formats

The blog explains the process of creating a basic Windows stack in Openstack using Heat Orchestration Template. The hypervisor being used is VMware ESXi5.5. Image preparation to upload in glance Lets start with creating a Windows 2012 R2 VM in ESXi. In this server, download and install the cloudbase-init package for windows .The beta version is available at this link: https://www.cloudbase.it/downloads/CloudbaseInitSetup_Beta.msi Follow the steps in this link for installation : http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/ Once installation is completed, edit the 'setup.exe" registry key at HKLocal machine/SYSTEM/SETUP/STATUS/ChildCompletion and change the value from 1 to 3. This is to avoid a system restart exception when the image boots up for the first time in openstack If you want to do any custom configurations in the windows machine, like open a specific firewall port, enable ping ,rdp etc..you can do it at this point  Run Syprep and shu...