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OpenStack Trove Essentials

By : Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar
Book Image

OpenStack Trove Essentials

By: Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar

Overview of this book

OpenStack has become an extremely popular solution to build public and private clouds with. Database as a Service (DBaaS) enables the delivery of more agile database services at lower costs. Some other benefits of DBaaS are secure database deployments and compliance to standards and best practices. Trove is a DBaaS built on OpenStack and is becoming more popular by the day. Since Trove is one of the most recent projects of OpenStack, DBAs and system administrators can find it difficult to set up and run a DBaaS using OpenStack Trove. This book helps DBAs make that step. We start by introducing you to the concepts of DBaaS and how is it implemented using OpenStack Trove. Following this, we look at implementing OpenStack and deploying Trove. Moving on, you will learn to create guest images to be used with Trove. We then look at how to provision databases in self-service mode, and how to perform administration tasks such as backup and recovery, and fine-tuning databases. At the end of the book, we will examine some advanced features of Trove such as replication.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
OpenStack Trove Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Use cases


So, if you are wondering all the places where we can use Trove, it fits in rather nicely with the following use cases.

Dev/test databases

Dev/test databases are an absolute killer feature, and almost all companies that start using Trove will definitely use it for their dev/test environments. This provides developers with the ability to freely create and dispose of database instances at will. This ability helps them be more productive and removes any lag from when they want it to when they get it.

The capability of being able to take a backup, run a database, and restore the backup to another server is especially key when it comes to these kinds of workloads.

Web application databases

Trove is used in production for any database that supports low-risk applications, such as some web applications. With the introduction of different redundancy mechanisms, such as master-slave in MySQL, this is becoming more suited to many production environments.