
After exploring many new technical topics over the past few months, including Docker and Kubernetes, I ventured out over the weekend to have a look at OpenStack. I wanted to have a closer look because OpenStack is used to provide a private cloud infrastructure, i.e. virtual machines (compute), storage, and networking for many projects. OpenStack is also used by some public cloud providers such as Rackspace or OVH, who seems to run many data centers all around the world with it. With such a strong backing, I assumed that it should be fairly easy to get the necessary information to setup up a basic installation. What followed was a day of trial, error and frustration.
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