OpenStack can be installed on the following Linux distributions: CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu. This book assumes that the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server operating system has been installed on all hosts prior to installation of OpenStack. You can find Ubuntu Server at the following URL: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server.

In order to support all of the networking features discussed in this book, the following minimum kernel version is recommended: 4.13.0-45-generic.