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Containers in OpenStack

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Containers in OpenStack

Overview of this book

Containers are one of the most talked about technologies of recent times. They have become increasingly popular as they are changing the way we develop, deploy, and run software applications. OpenStack gets tremendous traction as it is used by many organizations across the globe and as containers gain in popularity and become complex, it’s necessary for OpenStack to provide various infrastructure resources for containers, such as compute, network, and storage. Containers in OpenStack answers the question, how can OpenStack keep ahead of the increasing challenges of container technology? You will start by getting familiar with container and OpenStack basics, so that you understand how the container ecosystem and OpenStack work together. To understand networking, managing application services and deployment tools, the book has dedicated chapters for different OpenStack projects: Magnum, Zun, Kuryr, Murano, and Kolla. Towards the end, you will be introduced to some best practices to secure your containers and COE on OpenStack, with an overview of using each OpenStack projects for different use cases.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about the OpenStack container infrastructure management service, Magnum, in detail. We looked into the different objects in Magnum. Then, we learned about the components and architecture of Magnum. Then, we provided a detailed overview of the user request workflow in Magnum.

Finally, we looked at how to install a development setup for Magnum using DevStack and then did a hands-on exercise using Magnum CLI to create a Docker Swarm COE.

In the next chapter, we will learn about Zun, which is a container management service for OpenStack.