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Extending OpenStack

By : Omar Khedher
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Extending OpenStack

By: Omar Khedher

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a very popular cloud computing platform that has enabled several organizations during the last few years to successfully implement their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. This book will guide you through new features of the latest OpenStack releases and how to bring them into production straightaway in an agile way. It starts by showing you how to expand your current OpenStack setup and how to approach your next OpenStack Data Center generation deployment. You will discover how to extend your storage and network capacity and also take advantage of containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes in OpenStack. Additionally, you'll explore the power of big data as a Service terminology implemented in OpenStack by integrating the Sahara project. This book will teach you how to build Hadoop clusters and launch jobs in a very simple way. Then you'll automate and deploy applications on top of OpenStack. You will discover how to write your own plugin in the Murano project. The final part of the book will go through best practices for security such as identity, access management, and authentication exposed by Keystone in OpenStack. By the end of this book, you will be ready to extend and customize your private cloud based on your requirements.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Why containers?

The concept of containerization technology has existed for a few years. With Unix kernel maturity, many companies have started kicking off new paths toward the world of containers. Several projects have been created around the concept of containerization technology with slightly different architectures and purposes. Unix chroot was the earliest invention of a container implementation in Unix kernel. Based on the same concept, other projects such as FreeBSD jails, Linux-VServer, Solaris Containers, Linux containers, and OpenVZ, to name few, have emerged as new ways to adopt containers shifting through the infrastructure to a different level of flexibility.

As a result, we can observe in today's industry a worldwide interest in adopting the container concept. The necessity to switch to a containerized environment has been depicted from the years of experiencing...