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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch, Egle Sigler, James Denton
Book Image

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch, Egle Sigler, James Denton

Overview of this book

This is the fourth edition of the industry-acclaimed OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, created by four recognized OpenStack experts. It has now been updated to work with the latest OpenStack builds, using tools and processes based on their collective and vast OpenStack experience. OpenStack Open Source Cloud software is one of the most used cloud infrastructures to support a wide variety of use cases, from software development to big data analysis. It is developed by a thriving community of individual developers from around the globe and backed by most of the leading players in the cloud space today. We make it simple to implement, massively scalable, and able to store a large pool of data and networking resources. OpenStack has a strong ecosystem that helps you provision your cloud storage needs. Add OpenStack's enterprise features to reduce the cost of your business. This book will begin by showing you the steps to build up an OpenStack private cloud environment using Ansible. You'll then discover the uses of cloud services such as the identity service, image service, and compute service. You'll dive into Neutron, the OpenStack Networking service, and get your hands dirty with configuring networks, routers, load balancers, and more. You’ll then gather more expert knowledge on OpenStack cloud computing by managing your cloud's security and migration. After that, we delve into OpenStack Object storage and you’ll see how to manage servers and work with objects, cluster, and storage functionalities. Finally, you will learn about OpenStack dashboard, Ansible, Keystone, and other interesting topics.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition
Contributors
Preface
Another Book You May Enjoy
Index

Introduction – OpenStack Object Storage


OpenStack Object Storage, also known as Swift, is the service that allows for massively scalable and highly redundant storage on commodity hardware. This service is implemented by Rackspace as Cloud Files, and it is also analogous to Amazon's S3 storage service and managed in a similar way under OpenStack. With OpenStack Object Storage, we can store many objects of virtually unlimited size—restricted only by the available hardware—and grow our environment as needed, to accommodate our storage. The highly redundant nature of OpenStack Object Storage is ideal for archiving data (such as logs and backup archives) as well as for providing a storage system that OpenStack Compute can use for virtual machine instance images.

The architecture of OpenStack Object Storage is straightforward. There is the API service that runs on the controller nodes. Then there are Swift proxy services that can either be deployed onto the controller nodes, or separated onto their...