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Extending OpenStack

By : Omar Khedher
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Extending OpenStack

By: Omar Khedher

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a very popular cloud computing platform that has enabled several organizations during the last few years to successfully implement their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. This book will guide you through new features of the latest OpenStack releases and how to bring them into production straightaway in an agile way. It starts by showing you how to expand your current OpenStack setup and how to approach your next OpenStack Data Center generation deployment. You will discover how to extend your storage and network capacity and also take advantage of containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes in OpenStack. Additionally, you'll explore the power of big data as a Service terminology implemented in OpenStack by integrating the Sahara project. This book will teach you how to build Hadoop clusters and launch jobs in a very simple way. Then you'll automate and deploy applications on top of OpenStack. You will discover how to write your own plugin in the Murano project. The final part of the book will go through best practices for security such as identity, access management, and authentication exposed by Keystone in OpenStack. By the end of this book, you will be ready to extend and customize your private cloud based on your requirements.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

The application catalog service has revolutionized the way applications are deployed into the cloud by cutting the burden of infrastructure details complexity. Murano has brought an abstraction layer between the OpenStack infrastructure and third-party services. This is like a PaaS and IaaS marriage in OpenStack that has boosted the development of applications in the cloud to the next era and simplified the process of deploying, managing, and browsing a ready-state release of an application. Consequently, the Murano project has rapidly changed the gears by bringing containers onto the stage. As we have explored in this chapter, an amazing work has been done around Murano Docker support. Through simple steps, we have deployed a fully containerized simple application without worrying about all the manual steps, such as installing and configuring the environment dependencies...