Get Started
When ManageIQ has to be used in production environment, users normally download virtual appliances and deploy onto virtualization platform like OpenStack or VMware.
There are simple ways to explore ManageIQ. For getting started with ManageIQ, it can run as:
- Docker - Run ManageIQ as a Docker container
- Vagrant Box
- In Public Cloud such as Google Cloud Platform
For this guide, we will launch ManageIQ virtual appliance on QEmu/KVM. It is then configured to integrate with OpenStack which will be explained in chapter 2. It can also connect to other virtualization platforms.
Download appliance
Let's get started for setup. For this, we require ManageIQ appliance which is available on ManageIQ site. First download virtual appliance for QEmu/KVM. We will get qcow2 format disk which we use to launch virtual machine(VM).
| Note | Ansible automation feature is supported since ManageIQ Fine releases. It is suggested to download release after ManageIQ Fine version. |
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Create a new virtual machine
Create a new virtual machine and import existing disk image i.e. downloaded disk. To run well, it should have minimum,
- 8 GB of RAM
- 4 virtual CPUs
Launch virtual machine
Start up your virtual machine. Once it is booted successfully, it will ask for credentials to login.
Log in using default credentials:
- Login: root
- Password: smartvm
Now we have access of appliance console to configure and control ManageIQ server.