Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.2 Installation Guide

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Configuring OpenStack

Keypair is presently the only option available if the user wants to bootstrap ACM roles onto an OpenStack Linux 

instance.

To use password SSH authentication instead of key-pairs, configure images to have a generic user and 

password built in. After creating the instance, log into the console using the generic account and manually change the 
SSH daemon to allow for password authentication option. With this done, ACM bootstrapping is not possible using 
password authentication. However, after making the above changes, brownfielding ACM roles is possible using the 
username and password account.

OpenStack Physical Network Name, GV OpenStack.Configuration.PhysicalNetworkName

For OpenStack with the Cisco APIC plugin, Cisco IAC 4.3.2 supports deployment with a Physical Network name 
configured under the ML2 plugin with value of “physnet1” 

—

 a common usage for a Network name but one that is a 

free-form name. You may choose to use another. Cisco IAC provides a Global Variable 
(OpenStack.Configuration.PhysicalNetworkName) to change this.

 For more information on Cisco APIC and OpenStack, refer to detailed APIC documentation located here: