Installing and Configuring Cinder

Perform the following operations on the controller node.

1. Install the software package.

   1	yum -y install openstack-cinder

2. Modify the /etc/cinder/cinder.conf file.
   1. Open the file.

      1	vi /etc/cinder/cinder.conf

   2. Press i to enter the insert mode and perform the following configurations.
      1. Configure the database connection.

         1 2	[database] connection = mysql+pymysql://cinder:PASSWORD@controller/cinder

         

         Replace PASSWORD with the password of the cinder user described in Creating the Cinder Database.

      2. Configure the RabbitMQ service and replace PASSWORD with the actual password.

         1 2	[DEFAULT] transport_url = rabbit://openstack:PASSWORD@controller

         

         Replace PASSWORD with the password of the openstack user described in Installing RabbitMQ.

      3. Configure Identity service access and replace PASSWORD with the password selected for the cinder user in the Identity service.

         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

         [DEFAULT] auth_strategy = keystone [keystone_authtoken] www_authenticate_uri = http://controller:5000 auth_url = http://controller:5000 memcached_servers = controller:11211 auth_type = password project_domain_name = default user_domain_name = default project_name = service username = cinder password = PASSWORD

         

         Replace PASSWORD with the password of the cinder user described in Creating the Cinder Database.

      4. Configure my_ip to use the management IP address of the controller node.

         1 2	[DEFAULT] my_ip = 192.168.100.120

      5. Configure the lock path.

         1 2	[oslo_concurrency] lock_path = /var/lib/cinder/tmp

   3. Press Esc, type :wq!, and press Enter to save the file and exit.
3. Populate the block storage database.

   1	su -s /bin/sh -c "cinder-manage db sync" cinder

   

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