OpenStack Heat templates

In this directory (heat-templates in the hastexo/integration/hastexo branch of the edx-configuration repository), you will find templates for automated Open edX deployment on the OpenStack platform. For these templates to work, the OpenStack environment must support:

• OpenStack Keystone,
• OpenStack Nova,
• OpenStack Glance,
• OpenStack Cinder,
• OpenStack Heat,
• OpenStack Neutron (including LBaaS),
• OpenStack Swift, or any drop-in replacement service that understands the OpenStack Swift API and is registered as an object service endpoint.

The automated deployment time for an OpenStack based Open edX environment is approximately one hour. It only takes a few minutes to deploy OpenStack, Open edX's Ansible scheme consumes the rest.

The templates use syntax that supports an OpenStack environment running OpenStack Juno (2014.2) or later. Please note that it is not recommended to run Open edX on environments running an OpenStack release marked end-of-life (EOL); see the OpenStack release table for details.

You can use the Heat templates to deploy either a single-node or a multi-node edX environment.

• In a single-node environment, all Open edX services run on the same Nova instance. This configuration is recommended for proof-of-concept environment, or when you want to quickly spin up an edX stack on your OpenStack cloud for testing or evaluation purposes.
• In a multi-node environment, Heat deploys a three-node backend cluster running MySQL and MongoDB in a high-availability configuration. It also deploys a configurable number of application servers running all other Open edX services, and puts all application servers behind a load balancer.