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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

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at the different kinds of Heat templates and how to launch Heat stacks from these templates. Heat stacks offer a new level of opportunity to launch instances and tie them all together into a useful and functional set of instances and complementary resources. This completes the set of OpenStack components that we are going to review in this book.

In the upcoming chapters, we are going to look at how to architect an OpenStack cluster, how to monitor the cluster, and how to troubleshoot OpenStack infrastructure. In the next chapter, we will integrate Docker container support into your OpenStack cluster. OpenStack can be an effective method to managing Docker containers.

Next, you will get you get a taste of getting started with Docker containers in OpenStack.