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OpenStack Trove Essentials

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

Requirements


In order to use DevStack, the requirements are fairly minimal and the setup is fairly easy. We can set up a range of deployments right from a single node deployment to a multiple node deployment in a few moments. The following list shows what we need.

Operating system

DevStack runs on Ubuntu, RHEL, and Fedora and can work on most other popular Linux distributions. The latest releases of these operating systems are supported. In this book, we will be using Ubuntu 14.04 as our base operating system for the DevStack install.

Database

From a database perspective, DevStack runs with MySQL (or Maria DB) and PostgreSQL. We will be using Maria DB (the open source fork of MySQL) in this book.

Messaging queue

DevStack supports both RabbitMQ and QPID. In this book, we will be using RabbitMQ.

Web server

Apache is supported by DevStack and we will be using this in our installation.

Internet connection

Internet connection is a must as the script will pull the actual repositories from GitHub in order...