In this chapter, we have looked at performance analysis in an existing and operating OpenStack environment. The chapter puts an additional requirement under the scope that must exist in the life cycle of a private cloud environment. We have uncovered a straightforward way to exercise benchmarking and load tests using Rally. As this is becoming one of the OpenStack incubated projects, you should understand the capabilities of this tool by performing reproducible test suite cases and scenarios. Rally has become an official solution for OpenStack cloud operators to trace scalability and detect performance anomalies at an early stage. Although the OpenStack community has developed hundreds of scenarios and tasks included in Rally out of the box, this chapter has demonstrated another hallmark of Rally as a pluggable platform. We have created our own sample plugin using Python...
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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.
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Extending OpenStack
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Inflating the OpenStack Setup
Massively Scaling Computing Power
Enlarging the OpenStack Storage Capabilities
Harnessing the Power of the OpenStack Network Service
Containerizing in OpenStack
Managing Big Data in OpenStack
Evolving Self-Cloud Ready Applications in OpenStack
Extending the Applications Catalog Service
Consolidating the OpenStack Authentication
Boosting the Extended Cloud Universe
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