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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)

OpenStack Cluster – The Cloud Controller and Common Services

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- African proverb

Now that you have good knowledge of the approaches taken to deploy a large OpenStack infrastructure in an automated way, it is time to dive deeper and cover more specific conceptual designs within OpenStack.

In a large infrastructure, especially if you are looking to keep all your services up
and running, it is essential that you ensure the OpenStack infrastructure is reliable and guarantees business continuity.

We already discussed several design aspects and highlighted some best practices of scalable architecture models within OpenStack in Chapter 1, Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration.

Soon after, we discovered the efficiency of automation...