How to Deploy OpenStack Heat Templates¶

Use the instructions provided here to deploy any of the templates in F5’s heat orchestration template library.

OpenStack CLI¶

• python-openstackclient configured with the python-heatclient plugin
• F5 Heat Plugins for OpenStack

The OpenStack Heat documentation extensively covers creation and management of Heat stacks. This document describes F5’s OpenStack development team’s preferred means of stack creation:

• define a Heat template’s required parameters in a YAML file, and
• deploy the template via the command line.

This example uses the F5-supported Deploy basic load balancer template.

1. Download the template you want to deploy from the F5-Supported Heat templates library.
2. Save the definition for each of the template’s required configuration parameters in an environment file.

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parameters: client_server_image: client_server_flavor: key_name: client_server_sec_group: open client_network: server_network: bigip_un: $BIGIP_USER bigip_pw: $BIGIP_PASS vs_name: virtual_server1 pool_name: pool1 bigip_fip: vs_vip: vs_port: 443 pool_member_port: 8080

• image
• flavor
• ssh-key
• security group
• network

Protect your BIG-IP login information.

Store your username and password as environment variables and reference them in your environment file.

openstack stack create -f deploy-lb.yaml -e deploy-lb.params.yaml 

OpenStack Horizon¶

Follow the directions below to deploy a Heat stack using the OpenStack Horizon dashboard.

1. Go to Orchestration ‣ Stacks .
2. Click Launch Stack .
3. Choose the Template File from its location on your machine, then click Next .
4. Provide the information required for the Heat engine to build your stack.
5. Click Launch .

In the Stacks table, the status changes to Create complete when the deployment finishes.