I have recently been given a server rack consisting of 8 machines each equiped with Ubuntu 14.04. Each machine is a CORE I7, 2TB of data storage and 16GB of Memory. Machine 1 is equiped with 2 NICs, 1 connecting it with a public IP and the 2nd connecting it with a D-ink switch. The remaining 7 have single NICs and are connected to the same switch. My mission is to setup a cloud on the provided machines.
My initial mission is to setup 1 controller node and 1 compute node. I've gone through several tutorials. I cant figure out where to start. I've seen the tutorial where after cloud installation we select single machine. However, that installs most of the tools and features on a single machine.
I've seen the Openstack Installation Guide for Ubuntu 14.04 Juno released on 10th May this year. Went through the Nova architecture. But that setup is without a switch and with multiple NICs on multiple machines.
I've read that The landscape autopilot option requires MAAS and I believe Juju as well. The second option (the one with MAAS), I couldnt figure out what that was all about.
I'm kind of stuck here trying to figure out what my starting step would be. Can anyone please help and guide me what to do. Anyone who can guide me where I should start and what I should follow?