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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By : Dan Radez
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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By: Dan Radez

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a widely popular platform for cloud computing. Applications that are built for this platform are resilient to failure and convenient to scale. This book, an update to our extremely popular OpenStack Essentials (published in May 2015) will help you master not only the essential bits, but will also examine the new features of the latest OpenStack release - Mitaka; showcasing how to put them to work straight away. This book begins with the installation and demonstration of the architecture. This book will tech you the core 8 topics of OpenStack. They are Keystone for Identity Management, Glance for Image management, Neutron for network management, Nova for instance management, Cinder for Block storage, Swift for Object storage, Ceilometer for Telemetry and Heat for Orchestration. Further more you will learn about launching and configuring Docker containers and also about scaling them horizontally. You will also learn about monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using object storage on an instance


Now that we have seen how to get files in and out of Swift, let's look at installing the necessary client libraries on an instance to be able to interact with object storage on the instance. We will need to have the Swift client libraries installed so that the OpenStack command-line client can be executed on an instance. In this cluster, Swift is using Keystone for authentication. Swift can also use other authentication. It has a built-in authentication system and can also be used with other common authentication systems. Since Swift is configured to use Keystone for authentication, the Keystone client will also need to be installed. Let's install those clients now:

instance# sudo yum install -y https://www.rdoproject.org/repos/rdo-release.rpm
instance# sudo dnf install -y python-openstackclient

There will be a quite a few dependent packages that yum will install. Once those are installed, you will need to create a keystonerc file to source. Create a file...