Deploying OpenStack on CentOS for Personalized Cloud Environment Using the KVM Hypervisor

Abstract

Cloud computing has proven to be a successful Computing Technology as it is adopted by leading organizations worldwide. Considering the applications of various public Clouds, such as Amazon EC2, private and hybrid Cloud deployments this technology is evolving like no other. These type of computing environment is rather based on a closed source architecture. Therefore the availability of free open source Cloud platforms is essential for further development of private and hybrid Cloud computing environments. OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) originally released by Rackspace and NASA, where it provides virtual servers and other resources to customers. OpenStack eliminates the lack of a comprehensive Cloud platform with a fast pace of development for open source community and it is supported by an active community of people and large organizations. Since OpenStack is designed to operate in a large-scale working environment. In this work, we go through and discuss the steps required to deploy OpenStack in a small-scale environment or rather utilizing functionalities of OpenStack for creating a personalized cloud architecture for own use. Every step discussed in this paper is implemented to utilize OpenStack's open source architecture for building a personal cloud application to provide computing resources to its users through a web-based dashboard.