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By Abhishek Ghosh December 3, 2013 3:54 pm Updated on December 3, 2013

CoreOS on Rackspace Cloud : Basics

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CoreOS is a new operating system ready for the cloud computing. In this guide, we will talk about how to install CoreOS on Rackspace Cloud. We talked about CoreOS in small details in a previous article. CoreOS is currently under active development. Rackspace Openstack cloud differs slightly from the generic Openstack, so there will be some difference with OpenStack instructions.

 

CoreOS and Net-install of a custom linux distro on Cloud Servers

 

This method :

 

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http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Remote_installation

 

Does not work for Rackspace. As practically we are not everyday testing these things, our last tries were successful by a opening a ticket to Rackspace support to enable PV-GRUB. This was for other non CoreOS custom Linux Distro. The steps demands good grasp on UNIX. However, for CoreOS, these are not required.

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CoreOS on Rackspace Cloud : Basics

 

We need to install Python for installing Supernova tool. Details was described on this article – OpenStack Cloud Tools Python Packages. Run these commands :

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sudo pip install keyring
sudo pip install rackspace-novaclient
sudo pip install supernova

Edit your config file :

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vi ~/.supernova

CoreOS on Rackspace Cloud

Store your username, API key and some other settings. From documentation of CoreOS, these will be like these :

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[production]
OS_AUTH_URL = https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/
OS_USERNAME = your-username
OS_PASSWORD = fd62afe2-4686-469f-9849-ceaa792c55a6
OS_TENANT_NAME = nova-production
 
[development]
OS_AUTH_URL = http://dev.nova.example.com:8774/v1.1/
OS_USERNAME = jsmith
OS_PASSWORD = 40318069-6069-4d9f-836d-a46df17fc8d1
OS_TENANT_NAME = nova-development

jsmith username is given for dev purpose as per with the documentation. Add RSA keypairs :

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supernova production keypair-add --pub-key ~/.ssh/coreos.pub coreos-key

Booting :

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supernova production boot --image 430d35e0-1468-4007-b063-52ee1921b356 --flavor 2 My_CoreOS_Server --key-name coreos-key

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "CoreOS on Rackspace Cloud : Basics," in The Customize Windows, December 3, 2013, May 23, 2022, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2013/12/coreos-on-rackspace-cloud-basics/.

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