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OpenStack for Architects

By : Michael Solberg, Benjamin Silverman
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OpenStack for Architects

By: Michael Solberg, Benjamin Silverman

Overview of this book

Over the last five years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders such as Red Hat have led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Because of its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill-set to design and implement it. This guide leads you through each of the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. At each point, we offer you advice based on the experience we've gained from designing and leading successful OpenStack projects in a wide range of industries. Each chapter also includes lab material that gives you a chance to install and configure the technologies used to build production-quality OpenStack clouds. Most importantly, we focus on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
OpenStack for Architects
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


A complete guide to implementing H/A of the OpenStack services is probably worth a book to itself. In this chapter we started out by covering the main strategies for making OpenStack services highly available and identifying which strategies apply well to each service. Then we covered how OpenStack deployments are typically segmented across physical regions. Finally, we updated our documentation and implemented a few of the technologies we discussed in the lab.

While walking through the main considerations for highly available deployments in this chapter, we've tried to emphasize a few key points:

  • Scalability is at least as important as H/A in cluster design.

  • Ensure that your design is flexible in case of unexpected growth.

  • OpenStack doesn't scale forever. Plan for multiple regions.

Also, it's important to make sure that the strategy and architecture that you adopt for H/A are supportable by your organization. Consider reusing existing architectures for H/A in the message bus and database...