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OpenStack for Architects

By : Michael Solberg, Benjamin Silverman
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OpenStack for Architects

By: Michael Solberg, Benjamin Silverman

Overview of this book

Over the last five years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders such as Red Hat have led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Because of its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill-set to design and implement it. This guide leads you through each of the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. At each point, we offer you advice based on the experience we'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, we focus on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
OpenStack for Architects
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this book, we've walked through the major areas of focus in the emerging practice of a Cloud Architect as it pertains to OpenStack. We've shown you some techniques and recommendations to enable you to work with company stakeholders and provide architectural leadership in order to create a holistic design for OpenStack in an enterprise. Successfully designing, deploying, and operating OpenStack clouds requires a wide breadth of knowledge in the fields of compute, network, storage, and software design. It also takes a deep understanding of a company's strategic mission, processes, and success criteria for implementing a private cloud. Successful Cloud Architects leverage the knowledge and practice of subject matter experts in deep technical areas in conjunction with their own knowledge when designing OpenStack clouds. This book was written to provide a framework that an Architect could use to create a successful OpenStack deployment in concert with the rest of an enterprise using...