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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By : Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
Book Image

Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By: Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta

Overview of this book

In this second edition, you will get to grips with the latest features of OpenStack. Starting with an overview of the OpenStack architecture, you'll see how to adopt the DevOps style of automation while deploying and operating in an OpenStack environment. We'll show you how to create your own OpenStack private cloud. Then you'll learn about various hypervisors and container technology supported by OpenStack. You'll get an understanding about the segregation of compute nodes based on reliability and availability needs. We'll cover various storage types in OpenStack and advanced networking aspects such as SDN and NFV. Next, you'll understand the OpenStack infrastructure from a cloud user point of view. Moving on, you'll develop troubleshooting skills, and get a comprehensive understanding of services such as high availability and failover in OpenStack. Finally, you will gain experience of running a centralized logging server and monitoring OpenStack services. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs. You will be able to master OpenStack benchmarking and performance tuning. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have revisited the Telemetry service in OpenStack by scratching the surface of each sub-project including Ceilometer, Aodh, and Gnocchi. Although we did not cover all the available metrics within the latest releases of OpenStack, you should give more importance to understanding how the Telemetry module is being extended and works under the hood. We next expanded our monitoring vision by enforcing what was set up in the first part of the chapter with a sophisticated external monitoring solution: Nagios. You should be able to exploit its extreme benefits in terms of plugins and configuration flexibility. That opens the curtains to deliver a rich monitoring data where operators and administrators get more insight on the deployed OpenStack infrastructure. By the end of this chapter, we have looked at a few commons ways on how to take immediate actions and where to look once issues are raised...