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OpenStack for Architects - Second Edition

By : Ben Silverman, Michael Solberg

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OpenStack for Architects

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By: Ben Silverman, Michael Solberg

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Overview of this book

Over the past six years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, including industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders, such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE, has led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Due to its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill set to design and implement it. OpenStack for Architects leads you through the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. This book will address the recent changes made in the latest OpenStack release i.e Queens, and will also deal with advanced concepts such as containerization, NVF, and security. At each point, the authors offer you advice based on the experience they've gained from designing and leading successful OpenStack projects in a wide range of industries. Each chapter also includes lab material that gives you a chance to install and configure the technologies used to build production-quality OpenStack clouds. Most importantly, the book focuses on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout.

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Introducing OpenStack

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack components

Common OpenStack use cases

Drafting an initial deployment plan

The design document

Your first OpenStack deployment

Writing the initial deployment plan

Installing OpenStack

Summary

Further reading

Architecting the Cloud

Picking an OpenStack distribution

Compute hardware considerations

Network design

Storage design

Expanding the initial deployment

Summary

Further reading

Planning for Failure and Success

Building a highly available control plane

OpenStack service specifics

Regions, cells, and availability zones

Updating the design document

Implementing HA in the lab deployment

Summary

Further reading

Building the Deployment Pipeline

Dealing with Infrastructure as a Software

Using configuration management for deployment

Test infrastructure

Putting the pipeline together

Creating the composition layer

Installing Keystone

Summary

Further reading

Building to Operate

Logging, monitoring, and alerting

Active monitoring

A dashboard example

The future of OpenStack troubleshooting and Artificial Intelligence-driven operations

Capacity planning

Backups and recovery

Summary

Further reading

Integrating the Platform

IdM integration

Provisioning workflows

Metering and billing

Updating the design document

Summary

Further reading

Securing the Cloud

Security zones within OpenStack

Software vulnerabilities

Hardening hypervisors

Summary

Further reading

OpenStack Use Cases

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) / Telco Cloud

Big data and scientific compute use case

Edge Computing use case

Summary

Containers

What are containers?

Containers and OpenStack

OpenStack container-related projects

OpenStack On Containers

Summary

Conclusion

Emerging trends in OpenStack

Building the roadmap

Summary

Further reading

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Architecting the Cloud

The array of possible hardware and software combinations that can be used to create an OpenStack cloud is pretty amazing at this point. A phrase we typically hear these days is that having an integration for OpenStack is table stakes for a hardware or software product coming in the market. As of the Queens release of OpenStack (March 2018), there were 75 Cinder storage drivers and over 40 Neutron network plugins. These integrations cover a wide range of products from traditional EMC storage arrays and Cisco switches to various software-defined storage and networking products. OpenStack supports a number of hypervisors and compute platforms, ranging from commodity x86 hardware to IBM Z-series mainframes.

A few of the decisions we make as architects affect the bottom line as much as hardware and software selection. Although we approach the deployment of our...

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