Database as a Service in OpenStack

To run this tutorial, you'll need:

• a machine running VirtualBox (4.2 or better) and Vagrant (1.2 or better)
• at least 8G of RAM (more is better)
• an SSD (otherwise, random I/O is just going to kill your machine)

For initially setting up the virtual machine, you'll also need

• a working internet connection,
• time and patience.

Edit the Vagrantfile to increase the RAM allocation, if you can:

# Set the amount of RAM you want to allocate to the VM. The default
# (3G) is the minimum, set this to higher if you have RAM to spare
ram = 4096

Then bring up your VM:

vagrant up

Once vagrant up completes you can log into your box:

vagrant ssh

You can subsequently save your machine state with

vagrant suspend

And when needed, wake it up again with

vagrant resume