You can install VMware Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack with VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS for VMs). OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center.
These documents provide a general reference for OpenStack service credential management.
This section describes the requirements for installing Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack, including general requirements for installing Tanzu Operations Manager with Tanzu Operations Manager and TAS for VMs as well as OpenStack requirements.
You can install Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack with the TAS for VMs runtime. The VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) runtime is not supported for OpenStack. For more information about TAS for VMs, see TAS for VMs Components. For more information about TKGI, see [VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition](https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Kubernetes-Grid-Integrated-Edition/1.19/tkgi/GUID-index.html).
For TAS for VMs-specific resource requirements, see TAS for VMs Resource Requirements.
The following are OpenStack requirements for deploying Tanzu Operations Manager:
Tanzu Operations Manager is supported on all supported releases of OpenStack. OpenStack is a collection of inter-operable components and requires general OpenStack expertise to troubleshoot issues that might occur when installing Tanzu Operations Manager on particular releases and distributions. To verify that your OpenStack platform is compatible with Tanzu Operations Manager, use the OpenStack Validator tool. For information about the OpenStack Validator tool, see the CF OpenStack Validator repository on GitHub.
VMware recommends granting complete access to the OpenStack logs to the operator managing the Tanzu Operations Manager installation process.
For OpenStack accounts for Tanzu Operations Manager, VMware recommends following the principle of least privilege by scoping privileges to the most restrictive permissions possible for a given role.
You must have a dedicated OpenStack project, formerly known as an OpenStack tenant.
You must have Keystone access to the dedicated OpenStack project, including the following:
PrimaryProject
for the user must be the project you want to use to deploy Tanzu Operations Manager. For more information, see Manage projects and users in the OpenStack documentation.You must have the ability to do the following in OpenStack:
The following are resource requirements for the dedicated OpenStack project:
Nova or Neutron networking with floating IP support
By default, TAS for VMs deploys the number of VM instances required to run a highly available configuration of Tanzu Operations Manager. If you are deploying a test or sandbox Tanzu Operations Manager that does not require HA, then you can scale down the number of instances in your deployment. For information about the number of instances required to run a minimal, non-HA Tanzu Operations Manager deployment, see Scaling TAS for VMs.
The following are requirements for the OpenStack Cinder back end:
The following are requirements for using an Overlay Network with VXLAN or GRE Protocols:
If you are using IPsec, your resource usage increases by approximately 36 bytes. For details, including information about setting correct MTU values, see Installing IPsec in the IPsec documentation.
To install Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack with the TAS for VMs runtime:
Deploy Tanzu Operations Manager. For more information, see Deploying Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack.
Configure BOSH Director on OpenStack. For more information, see Configuring BOSH Director on OpenStack.
After completing the procedures above, configure a runtime.
For information about installing and configuring a runtime, see Configuring TAS for VMs.