Openstack Installation on Ubuntu 22.04

Prepare a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 VM and follow the below commands to install openstack

Script to install a basic Openstack instance.

#!/bin/bash

# Update package list
sudo apt update

# Install git
sudo apt install git -y

# Create user 'stack' with specified home directory and shell
sudo useradd -s /bin/bash -d /opt/stack -m stack

# Grant execute permission to /opt/stack
sudo chmod +x /opt/stack

# Allow 'stack' user to execute sudo commands without password prompt
echo "stack ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/stack

# Switch to 'stack' user
sudo -u stack -i

# Clone devstack repository
git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/devstack
cd devstack

Create a file called local.conf

nano local.conf

[[local|localrc]]
ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret
DATABASE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
RABBIT_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
SERVICE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD

Add ubuntu bionic image to openstack by downloading it with wget

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/current/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img