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Extending OpenStack

By : Omar Khedher
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Extending OpenStack

By: Omar Khedher

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a very popular cloud computing platform that has enabled several organizations during the last few years to successfully implement their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. This book will guide you through new features of the latest OpenStack releases and how to bring them into production straightaway in an agile way. It starts by showing you how to expand your current OpenStack setup and how to approach your next OpenStack Data Center generation deployment. You will discover how to extend your storage and network capacity and also take advantage of containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes in OpenStack. Additionally, you'll explore the power of big data as a Service terminology implemented in OpenStack by integrating the Sahara project. This book will teach you how to build Hadoop clusters and launch jobs in a very simple way. Then you'll automate and deploy applications on top of OpenStack. You will discover how to write your own plugin in the Murano project. The final part of the book will go through best practices for security such as identity, access management, and authentication exposed by Keystone in OpenStack. By the end of this book, you will be ready to extend and customize your private cloud based on your requirements.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Boosting the Extended Cloud Universe

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
–Benjamin Franklin

What would be the most efficient way to deliver a stable, private cloud environment that is ready for production workload at any point in time? The answer to this question could be elaborate and may even take an entire book, tackling different aspects of the cloud environment's availability and flexibility. From a performance perspective, cloud operators should ensure that the underlying infrastructure is not limiting end users access to resources at any moment. Despite the envisaged term cloud, resources cannot be limitless unless some metrics and a baseline for an SLA are being defined. This can be seen from several angles—How can cloud administrators go further with more efficiency regarding management? Can the cloud environment be expanded...