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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

Required OpenStack services


The best aspect of OpenStack is that you can choose to run services as per your requirement. However, there are some basic services that Trove and its features are dependent on; they need to be present:

  • Keystone – for authentication

  • Cinder – for block devices

  • Swift – for backups

  • Nova – for the VMs that would run the instances

  • Horizon – for the GUI

Neutron is an optional component, and in its absence, the Nova network can provide the basic networking capabilities that are needed.

Keystone, Cinder, and Nova are mandatory, without which the service can't even perform its basic function. In the absence of Swift, the system will provide databases, but the backup/restore and replication/clusters and so on wouldn't work.