In this chapter, we covered several topics and terminologies on how to develop and maintain a code infrastructure using the DevOps style.
Viewing your OpenStack infrastructure deployment as code will not only simplify node configuration, but also improve the automation process.
You should keep in mind that DevOps is neither a project nor a goal, but a methodology that will make your deployment successfully empowered by using team synergy with different departments.
Despite the existence of numerous system management tools to bring our OpenStack up and running in an automated way, we have chosen Ansible for the automation of our infrastructure.
Puppet, Chef, Salt, and others can do the job, but in different ways. You should know that there isn't one way to perform automation. Both Puppet and Chef have their own OpenStack deployment projects under the OpenStack Big Tent.
At the end of the day, you can...