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Learning OpenStack High Availability

By : Rishabh Sharma
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Learning OpenStack High Availability

By: Rishabh Sharma

Overview of this book

<p>OpenStack is one of the most popular open source cloud computing platforms, and it is used most of all for deploying Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. Enabling high availability in OpenStack is a required skill for cloud administrators and cloud engineers in today’s world.</p> <p>This book helps you to achieve high availability and resiliency to OpenStack. This means clustering, fencing, load-balancing, distributed networking, leveraging shared storage, automatic failover, and replication. We start with a basic understanding of what a highly available design is meant to achieve in OpenStack and various ways to achieve high availability in OpenStack through simple step-by-step procedures.</p> <p>Through hands-on examples, you will develop a solid knowledge of horizontally-scalable, fault-resistant, and highly-available OpenStack clusters and will be able to apply the techniques from this book in your day-to-day projects. This book also sheds light on the principles of application design for high availability, and monitoring for high availability, with examples.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning OpenStack High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Michael A Cossenas is a Linux/Network adminstrator from Athens, Greece.

He's been a network security specialist working for Digital Sima, a company specialized in LAN/WAN networking. He is now employed as a subcontractor for IBM Greece in the SO (Strategic Outsourcing) department. Here, he manages 50+ SUSE-based Linux servers for one of their customers.

His first experience with Linux was back in 1998, when he used Red Hat Linux 5.2. Since then, Michael has worked on various open source projects, including Zimbra, Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD), Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and Postfix.

He is also an openvpn forum moderator.

Vinoth Kumar Selvaraj is working as an OpenStack engineer at Cloudenablers, a Cloud Technology start-up based in Chennai, India. At Cloudenablers, he takes care of setting up private and hybrid clouds for internal/external customers. He also leads the CloudLab initiatives, which involve the exploration and integration of various products and tools with the latest versions of OpenStack.

Also, he worked as a reviewer for the book Openstack Cloud Security.

In his spare time, Vinoth enjoys sharing his insights on technologies at http://www.hellovinoth.com.