April 25, 2024 by CodeFlowerHorn

Setting Up a Management Server in Apache CloudStack

The management server is a critical component responsible for managing the entire CloudStack infrastructure. It acts as the control plane for the cloud environment, handling tasks such as user authentication, resource provisioning, virtual machine lifecycle management, and monitoring.

Add the repository for Apache Cloudstack

The Apache CloudStack version we used is 4.19

You must run the terminal as root

mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -O- http://packages.shapeblue.com/release.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/cloudstack.gpg > /dev/null

echo deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/cloudstack.gpg] http://packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream/debian/4.19 / > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudstack.list
apt update -y
apt install cloudstack-management mysql-server net-tools -y

Configure MySQL settings

Insert all this code below [mysqld]

nano /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

server_id = 1
sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"
innodb_rollback_on_timeout=1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout=600
max_connections=1000
log-bin=mysql-bin
binlog-format = 'ROW'

mysql -u root -p

The default password is blank so just presss "Enter"

SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';
use mysql;
UPDATE user SET plugin="mysql_native_password" WHERE User='root';
flush privileges;
\q

Restart the MySQL service

systemctl restart mysql

Setup static ip using netplan.

After you paste the code below run netplan apply

You must check first if you're using the correct gateway and if the IP to use is available

network:
version: 2
renderer: NetworkManager
ethernets:
enp0s3:
addresses: [192.168.1.100/24]
nameservers:
addresses: [8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4]
routes:
- to: default
via: 192.168.1.1

Paste your static ip in /etc/hosts

Make sure to comment out the #127.0.1.1 ubuntu1

127.0.0.1 localhost
#127.0.1.1 ubuntu1
192.168.1.100 ubuntu1

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

SSH Authorized key

cat /var/lib/cloudstack/management/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Sample SSH public key you will need this ssh public key for your compute node

Do not copy this SSH public key yours will be different

ssh-rsa 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 cloud@ubuntu1

Setup database for Apache CloudStack

machinepassword: is your Ubuntu password

password: is your MySQL password

cloudstack-setup-databases cloud:machinepassword@localhost --deploy-as=root:password

Setup management server

cloudstack-setup-management

Open the dashboard

Do not copy this IP address yours might be different

http://192.168.1.100:8080/client