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OpenStack for Architects - Second Edition

By : Michael Solberg, Ben Silverman
Book Image

OpenStack for Architects - Second Edition

By: Michael Solberg, Ben Silverman

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Contributors

About the authors

Ben Silverman, the Chief Cloud Officer for the service provider/Telco team at OnX. Previously, Ben has worked as a Sr. system architect for Mirantis and as the lead architect for American Express's first OpenStack cloud. He is also responsible for the OpenStack Architecture Guide online and leads the Phoenix OpenStack User's group. He holds a degree in English communications and a master's degree in information management from Arizona State University. 

He has also been a technical reviewer of the book, Learning OpenStack, by Packt Publishing.

I'd like to thank God for the blessings that have allowed me to write this book. I'd also like to thank my beautiful wife Jennifer and the two apples of my eyes, my sons, Jason and Brayden, for all of the loving support. I'd also like to thank all the stackers that continue to give us feedback and help us write better books.

 

 

 

 

Michael Solberg, as a chief architect, is responsible for helping Red Hat customers achieve their key business transformation initiatives through open source architectures and technologies. His previous experience includes building web hosting infrastructure, helping enterprises migrate to Linux, and designing new Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms. He is an avid supporter of the OpenStack project and a regular speaker at industry events.

Thanks to Ben for all of his hard work on this edition of the book. It's a great pleasure to work with such a talented author.

About the reviewer

Felipe Monteiro currently works for AT&T as a software developer, predominantly focusing on developing AT&T's under-cloud platform in order to orchestrate OpenStack on Kubernetes deployment. He is currently the lead developer for Deckhand and Armada, two of the core microservices that comprise UCP. He also works on OpenStack, particularly on Murano, OpenStack's application catalog, and Patrole, a Tempest plugin. He was the Murano PTL during the Pike release cycle, and he is currently a core reviewer for both Murano and Patrole.

 

 

 

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