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OpenStack Orchestration

By : Adnan Ahmed Siddiqui
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OpenStack Orchestration

By: Adnan Ahmed Siddiqui

Overview of this book

This book is focused on setting up and using one of the most important services in OpenStack orchestration, Heat. First, the book introduces you to the orchestration service for OpenStack to help you understand the uses of the templating mechanism, complex control groups of cloud resources, and huge-potential and multiple-use cases. We then move on to the topology and orchestration specification for cloud applications and standards, before introducing the most popular IaaS cloud framework, Heat. You will get to grips with the standards used in Heat, overview and roadmap, architecture and CLI, heat API, heat engine, CloudWatch API, scaling principles, JeOS and installation and configuration of Heat. We wrap up by giving you some insights into troubleshooting for OpenStack. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and supporting images, you will be able to manage OpenStack operations by implementing the orchestration services of Heat.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
OpenStack Orchestration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Stack Group of Connected Cloud Resources
Index

Chapter 5. Working with Heat

In the previous chapter, we walked through installing and setting up Heat component for OpenStack. We created a very basic Heat template, and then we set up a simple stack using that template.

In this chapter, we will explore the architecture of Heat in further detail. We will focus on the following topics in this chapter:

  • Standards used in Heat

  • The Heat overview and roadmap

  • The Heat basic architecture and CLI

  • The Heat basic workflow

  • The Heat API

  • The Heat CloudWatch API

  • The Heat engine

  • Heat autoscaling principles

  • JeOS