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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

Creating object containers


To get started using OpenStack Object Storage, we must first create a container. A container in this case is quite similar to a folder on Windows or Linux file directory. However, containers cannot be nested, though deep structures can be created in a fashion similar to the nested folder structure using both container and object names (pseudo folders) when we come to uploading the objects that are stored in these containers. Names we assigned containers and objects are analogous to labels that allow us to interpret as folder structures through the use of a / character in these labels.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are logged on to a correctly configured OpenStack client as described in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, and can access the OpenStack environment as a user with the swiftoperator privileges.

We will use the developer user created in the Common OpenStack identity tasks recipe in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, with the cookbook4 password; we have also granted...