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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 6. Managing Heat

In the previous chapter, we covered Heat functionality in detail. We also discussed the basic architecture of Heat and the main components that build up the Orchestration service for OpenStack. Then, we covered the command-line arguments accepted by Heat CLI. Finally, we explained the message flow for Heat.

In this chapter, we will cover the following objectives:

  • Heat and DevStack

  • Get the stack list

  • The event stack list

  • Create a stack

  • Delete a stack

  • The template structure

  • The CloudFormation template