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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By : Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
Book Image

Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By: Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta

Overview of this book

In this second edition, you will get to grips with the latest features of OpenStack. Starting with an overview of the OpenStack architecture, you'll see how to adopt the DevOps style of automation while deploying and operating in an OpenStack environment. We'll show you how to create your own OpenStack private cloud. Then you'll learn about various hypervisors and container technology supported by OpenStack. You'll get an understanding about the segregation of compute nodes based on reliability and availability needs. We'll cover various storage types in OpenStack and advanced networking aspects such as SDN and NFV. Next, you'll understand the OpenStack infrastructure from a cloud user point of view. Moving on, you'll develop troubleshooting skills, and get a comprehensive understanding of services such as high availability and failover in OpenStack. Finally, you will gain experience of running a centralized logging server and monitoring OpenStack services. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs. You will be able to master OpenStack benchmarking and performance tuning. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Benchmarking OpenStack at scale

Early better than late! This is what cloud operators should keep in mind when verifying the functional anomalies of the OpenStack private cloud at an early stage. In distributed computing systems, every circulated request incurs a performance hit. That represents obviously, several challenges to be able systematically to measure performance across all installed OpenStack components. Among those challenges is the inability to perform sophisticated tests in an easy and automated way to bring realistic and accurate measurement results. Additionally, with the continuous growth of the OpenStack ecosystem and the integration of more incubated projects, it will be hard to keep the initial setup up and running and prevent events of performance degradation without defining since the beginning a verification process which ensures that your cloud environment is in a good shape whatever workload...