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Mastering OpenStack

By : Omar Khedher
Book Image

Mastering OpenStack

By: Omar Khedher

Overview of this book

This book is intended for system administrators, cloud engineers, and system architects who want to deploy a cloud based on OpenStack in a mid- to large-sized IT infrastructure. If you have a fundamental understanding of cloud computing and OpenStack and want to expand your knowledge, then this book is an excellent checkpoint to move forward.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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8. Extending OpenStack – Advanced Networking Features and Deploying Multi-tier Applications
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Index

Confirming the multinode setup


We can divide our physical setup into the following two categories:

  • OpenStack node role assignment: The number of nodes as well as the services that will be running into each one

  • OpenStack node provisioning: The way we will conduct the installation of each one from the bare metal level

By combining our multinode setup with a bare metal provisioning that configures the physical servers on a hardware level and a services categorization by using a group of nodes, we have an end-to-end approach that can quickly install a primary OpenStack private cloud in a wide range of hardware.

Assigning physical nodes

Depending on the number of physical machines that you would like to deploy, take into consideration the best practices and recommendations that were discussed in the previous chapters while building your first OpenStack production environment. In the current example, the following nodes need to be installed:

  • Three controller nodes

  • Three compute nodes

  • Three Ceph OSD...