BIG-IQ Cloud provides you with the tools to manage OpenStack versions 2013.1 (Grizzly) and 2013.2 (Havana) resources required to run applications. Management tasks include discovering BIG-IP VE virtual machines and discovering, creating, starting, and stopping OpenStack application servers running in the private cloud. You can use this feature to accommodate seasonal traffic fluctuations by periodically adding and retracting devices and application servers as needed. Additionally, you can provide tenants access to self-deployable iApps through OpenStack integration.

To provide access to these services for OpenStack tenants, you configure communication between OpenStack products, and BIG-IQ Cloud. Then, you associate an OpenStack cloud connector with a device, and create a catalog entry for a corresponding OpenStack service profile. The tenants to whom you give access to the catalog entry see it in their applications panel. From there, they can use it to self-deploy their own iApps.

Before you can manage devices residing in an OpenStack private cloud, you must establish proper communication between the BIG-IQ Cloud and the OpenStack controller node. Generally, this means defining a network route between the BIG-IQ Cloud internal VLAN and the public Internet, or the OpenStack private cloud endpoint.

The BIG-IQ Cloud connector for OpenStack parses the OpenStack cloud's network naming convention as follows:

• Any network that contains the name mgmt, management, internal, or external is assumed to indicate a network type (always-on management network, internal network, and external network, respectively). If there are multiple networks, BIG-IQ Cloud uses the first network it finds with those names to communicate with the OpenStack cloud.
• If there are no networks with those names, BIG-IQ Cloud assigns the network type based on the order in which the network was discovered. For example, if BIG-IQ Cloud discovers networks 10.10.10.0/24, 20.20.20.0/24, and 30.30.30/24, it assigns them as follows:

• Management network 10.10.10.0/24
• External network 20.20.20.0/24
• Internal network 30.30.30.0/24

This is important to know, because when you create a new application server in OpenStack through BIG-IQ Cloud, you are allowed to select the internal or external network, but not the management network.

1. Log in to the command line of each OpenStack Compute node and edit /etc/nova/release to read as follows: [Nova] vendor = Red Hat product = Bochs package = RHEL 6.3.0 PC
2. Restart the OpenStack Compute node services.

1. Hover over the Devices header, click the + icon when it appears, and then select Discover Device.
2. In the IP Address field, type the device's external self IP address. You cannot discover a BIG-IP device using its management IP address.
3. When the BIG-IQ system and the BIG-IP device are on different subnets, you must create a route:
   1. Use SSH to log in to the BIG-IQ system's management IP address as the root user.
   2. Type the following command: tmsh create net route <route name> {gw <x.x.x.x> network default}
   Where <route name> is a user-provided name to identify the new route, and <x.x.x.x> is the IP address of the default gateway for the internal network.
4. In the Admin User Name and Admin Password fields, type the administrator user name and password for the managed device.
5. Select the Auto Update Framework check box to direct the BIG-IQ system to perform any required REST framework updates on the BIG-IP device. For the BIG-IQ system to properly manage a BIG-IP device, the BIG-IP device must be running the most recent REST framework. If you do not select the Auto Update Framework check box before you click the Add button, a message displays prompting you do update the framework or cancel the task.
6. Click the Add button.

1. Log in to BIG-IQ Cloud with your administrator user name and password.
2. Hover over the Connectors header and click the + icon when it appears.
3. In the Name and Description fields, type a name and description. You can use the name and description to help you organize network resources into logical groups based on certain criteria, such as the location or application.
4. From the Cloud Provider list, select OpenStack.
5. In the OpenStack Controller Node URI field, type the URI for the OpenStack controller node.
6. In the OpenStack User Name field, type the user name for the OpenStack administrator. For example, https://<IP address>:<Port> or http://<IP address>:<Port>. Note that default port for http is 5000.
7. In the OpenStack Tenant Name and OpenStack Password fields, type the tenant (also known as, project) name and password.
8. Click the Save button.