Who this book is for

To speed up with the content of this book, prior knowledge of OpenStack is required. If you don't have experience in OpenStack, reading small snippets from the OpenStack community, http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/ch_getting-started-with-openstack.html, will bring you onto the same wavelength of this book. As the title of the book promises, you should not expect a long and detailed tutorial on the installation of OpenStack. Although some chapters provide specific details concerning the installation of the new components, you are expected to have some basic knowledge on how it works in general so that you can turn your focus to the advanced methods and tricks that treat the topic at hand. This book is essentially for the novice cloud and technical architects and the system administrators who are willing to deploy a cloud based on OpenStack in a medium to large IT infrastructure. The book is also meant for those who have already deployed an OpenStack environment and who are willing to discover new features and expand their knowledge of how this technology works and how you can integrate new incubated projects during the operational phase.