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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

Different methods of deploying OpenStack


Before we start adding Trove in our production environments, let's take a look at various methods that are available to install/deploy the OpenStack environment.

One method that we have already seen in the last chapter is utilizing DevStack scripts, but we also know that it is not fit for a production environment. There are several distributions of OpenStack, which can be downloaded from their repositories.

The most famous distributions for different categories are as follows:

  • OS distribution: Ubuntu

    • Installed using aptitude (apt-get) found on Debian systems and provides a repository for each release of OpenStack.

  • Third-party distribution: Mirantis

    • Installed and configured using another big-tent project called Fuel. The Trove plugin is available for us to use Fuel to install Trove.

  • Distribution optimized for Trove: Tesora

    • The distribution is available only as a DBaaS platform, which means if you have installed this, then you already have Trove.

There are other...