Rackspace Private Cloud Software installs a collection of Chef cookbooks that deploy and manage the suite of OpenStack core projects: Compute (Nova), Image Service (Glance), Dashboard (Horizon), and Identity (Keystone), and Block Storage (Cinder). OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) is installed separately, as described in this document.

Rackspace Private Cloud Software v 2.0 (Alamo) supports the Folsom release of OpenStack for these components.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for customers who have already installed a cloud with the Rackspace Private Cloud Software installer and who want to extend the cluster with OpenStack Object Storage (Swift).

To use the product and this document, you should be familiar with Rackspace Private Cloud Software and have prior knowledge of OpenStack and cloud computing, and basic Linux administration skills.

• Concepts and Rackspace Recommendations
• Prequisites
• Configuration
• Managing OpenStack Object Storage with Chef

Document Change History

This version of the Rackspace Private Cloud Cookbook Update Guide replaces and obsoletes all previous versions. The most recent changes are described in the table below:

Additional Resources

• Rackspace Private Cloud Knowledge Center
• Opscode Chef documentation
• OpenStack Storage developer documentation