openstack redhat install storops

Install storops rpm on rhel7

Install a RHEL VM.

1. If using qcow2 image, the default user is cloud-user. Use the OpenStack ssh key to login.

2. Create a new user stack with password welcome.

$ sudo useradd stack
$ sudo passwd stack
$ sudo visudo

3. Modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow login via password

Entry name is PasswordAuthentication.

Register subscription

$ sudo subscription-manager register
$ sudo subscription-manager attach --auto
$ sudo subscription-manager repos \
    --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms --enable=rhel-7-server-extras-rpms \
    --enable=rhel-7-server-rh-common-rpms \
    --enable=rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
$ sudo yum update

Download storops rpm from github

curl -OJL https://github.com/emc-openstack/storops/releases/download/r1.0.0/python2-storops-1.0.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm

Check its dependencies

rpm -qp python2-storops-1.0.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm --requires

Install the dependencies

# Configure the yum repo
$ sudo su -
$ cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/common-candidate.repo << EOF
[common-candidate]
name=common-candidate
baseurl=http://cbs.centos.org/repos/cloud7-openstack-common-candidate/x86_64/os
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=2
EOF

# Install the packages
sudo yum install -y python-bitmath python-cachez \ 
    python-dateutil python-enum34 python-persist-queue \ 
    python-requests python-retryz