Deploy a Centos container in Docker for running OpenStack Nova tests

First start a centos container using docker command line and drop down to the bash shell

dims@dims-ubuntu:~$ sudo docker run -i -t centos /bin/bash
[root@218b625b2529 nova]# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.5.x86_64

Install the EPEL repository

[root@218b625b2529 /]# yum -y install epel-release

Install a few things needed before we can run Nova tests as documented here:

[root@218b625b2529 /]# yum -y install git python-devel openssl-devel python-pip git gcc libxslt-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel libffi-devel libvirt-devel graphviz sqlite-devel

We need tox as well.

[root@218b625b2529 /]# pip install tox

Get the latest nova trunk

[root@218b625b2529 /]# git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/nova
[root@218b625b2529 /]# cd nova
[root@218b625b2529 nova]#

Run the tests as usual

[root@218b625b2529 nova]# tox -e py27 nova.tests.unit.test_crypto