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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)

The era of network programming

The Neutron project bundles different implementations of network services and solutions, such as routing, security, load balancing, and VPNs. We have explored its great extensibility by developing our own plugins and mechanism driver to fit to a certain network topology. This brings us to a new checkpoint in the network virtualization concept—programming the network flow. With the emergence of the Software Defined Network (SDN) technology, a physical network infrastructure can be programmatically operated. The SDN concept complies with the OpenStack networking service by abstracting the network resources. A major advantage of this approach is the flexibility added to the network management from user and operator perspectives. Traditional network implementations based on pure physical layouts exposes different barriers when it comes to deploying...