Preparing the host for the OpenStack deployment

In this recipe, we are going to install the infrastructure components that OpenStack depends on, such as the database server, the message queue, and the caching service. The projects that we are going to use throughout this chapter depend on these services for communication and persistent storage.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to need the following components:

• An Ubuntu server with great virtualization capabilities
• Access to the internet for package installation

How to do it...

In order to keep the deployment...