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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By : Manoj Hirway
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By: Manoj Hirway

Overview of this book

This book introduces you to the hybrid cloud platform, and focuses on the AWS public cloud and OpenStack private cloud platforms. It provides a deep dive into the AWS and OpenStack cloud platform services that are essential for developing hybrid cloud applications. You will learn to develop applications on AWS and OpenStack platforms with ease by leveraging various cloud services and taking advantage of PaaS. The book provides you with the ability to leverage the ?exibility of choosing a cloud platform for migrating your existing resources to the cloud, as well as developing hybrid cloud applications that can migrate virtual machine instances from AWS to OpenStack and vice versa. You will also be able to build and test cloud applications without worrying about the system that your development environment supports. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the best practices that are followed across the industry for developing cloud applications, as well as for adapting the hybrid cloud platform. Lastly, it also sheds light on various troubleshooting techniques for OpenStack and AWS cloud platform services that are consumed by hybrid cloud applications. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of the hybrid cloud platform and will be able to develop robust, efficient, modular, scalable, and ?exible cloud applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating an application development environment for OpenStack


For creating a development environment on a Unix platform, you will need the following:

  • A Linux system (preferably Ubuntu)
  • Devstack or OpenStack installed (we have already seen how to install devstack in Chapter 3, Exploring OpenStack Private Cloud)
  • Python 2.7 installed
  • Python package managed (pip) installed

We will be using the commonly used openstacksdk Python library for developing OpenStack applications. Let's install the SDK using pip. 

Log in to your Linux system as a root user and enter the following command:

pip install openstacksdk

This will install the OpenStack SDK on your system. You are now ready to write your first OpenStack application.