My goal is to throw Openstack up on AWS using the free tier and without paying for software initially, as an excercise.
I realize there are some special network tweeks which need to occur. My plan is to follow the openstack.org community install docs for SuSe.
My biggest concern is that the free tier AMI has 1GB ram and I doubt that’s sufficient to run Openstack services.
I assume that I would really not be able to leverage the SuSe Openstack Cloud software or SuSe Manager software. Anyone have any thoughts?
Appreciated!
Getting a whole cloud into there is not possible, at all. You can
potentially run the training SUSE OpenStack Cloud (SOC) environment on a
laptop with sixteen (16) GiB RAM, but you would be hard-pressed to go
smaller and do the full training. Getting all of the components of just
those training going probably takes eight (8) GiBs, at least. The free
tier is great, but it is not meant for running whole clouds.
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My goal is to throw Openstack up on AWS using the free tier and without
paying for software initially, as an excercise.
I realize there are some special network tweeks which need to occur. My
plan is to follow the openstack.org community install docs for SuSe.
My biggest concern is that the free tier AMI has 1GB ram and I doubt
that’s sufficient to run Openstack services.
I assume that I would really not be able to leverage the SuSe Openstack
Cloud software or SuSe Manager software. Anyone have any thoughts?
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Whilst I don’t have any experience of installing OpenStack on AWS
I have installed SUSE OpenStack Cloud in a virtual
environment.
Firstly I will note that the SUSE install docs on openstack.org
cover installing third-party OpenStack packages (from the Open
Build Service) on openSUSE Leap 42.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES) 12 SP1 or SP2. This is not the same as installing
SUSE OpenStack Cloud and does not use SUSE Manager.
My experience with SUSE OpenStack Cloud says that 1GB of RAM is
not sufficient - whilst the docs suggest requiring a lot more you
can get away with 1.25GB. Do you have a machine available with
16GB of RAM? If so, I’d set up a virtual environment on that
rather than using AWS.
Since the other answers, while valid do not address the underlying issue I’ll chime in. AWS does not support nested virtualization which is what you would need to run SOC in another cloud environment. Meaning your problem is not the instance size but one of technology. To run SOC in a cloud environment you need a cloud vendor that provides access to the hardware or that supports nested virtualization.