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Introduction

Introduction

This section introduces Fuel for OpenStack and its components.

Introducing Fuel for OpenStack

Mirantis Fuel for Openstack is a set of deployment tools that helps you to quickly deploy your cloud environment. Fuel includes the scripts that dramatically facilitate and speed up the process of cloud deployment. Typically, OpenStack installation requires you familiarize yourself with the processes of installation of OpenStack environment components. Fuel eliminates the need to study these processes. With Fuel, system administrators can provision an OpenStack single node, as well as clustered cloud in terms of minutes.

Deployment Modes

You can use Fuel for OpenStack to create virtually any OpenStack configuration. However, Mirantis provides several pre-defined architectures for your convenience. The pre-defined architectures include:

  • Multi-node The Multi-node environment provides an easy way to install an entire OpenStack environment without requiring the degree of increased hardware involved in ensuring high availability. Mirantis recommends that you use this architecture for testing purposes.
  • Multi-node HA The Multi-node with HA environment is dedicated for highly available production deployments. Using Multi-node with HA you can deploy additional services, such as Cinder, Neutron, and Ceph. You can create the following multi-node environments:

With Fuel, you can create your own cloud environment that include additional components.

For more information, contact Mirantis.

Reference Architecture

About Fuel Components

You can use Fuel to quickly deploy and manage the OpenStack environment.

Fuel includes the following components:

  • Master Node

    The Fuel Master Node is the lifecycle management application for deployment and managing OpenStack. It sits outside the OpenStack environment and services as a control plane for multiple Openstack envionments.

  • Controller Node

    A controller node that manages the OpenStack environment including deployment of additional controller and compute nodes, configuring network settings, and so on. For HA deployments, Mirantis recommends to deploy at least 3 controller nodes.

  • Compute Node(s)

    A compute node is a server where you run virtual machines and applications.

  • Storage Node(s)

    Optional component. You can deploy a separate Swift or Ceph storage node. Mirantis recommends to deploy standalone storage nodes for high availability environments.

Fuel Installation Procedures

You must complete the following tasks to use Fuel to deploy OpenStack clouds:

  1. Install the Fuel Master Node on physical or virtual hardware using the Fuel installation image
  2. Set the other nodes to boot from the network and power them on to make them accessible for Fuel Master node
  3. Assign your desired roles to the discovered nodes using Fuel UI or CLI.

Fuel is designed to maintain the OpenStack environment while providing the flexibility to adapt it to your configuration.

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