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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

Planning the install


Before we go ahead with adding Trove to our production install, there are a couple of things we should do:

  • Decide where to install the Trove components

  • Take backups

Where to install the Trove components

In a production install of OpenStack, you would have a variety of nodes that would be functioning as:

  • Controller node

  • Compute node

  • Storage node

  • Network node

There might be a single node for each of these roles or multiples of these nodes depending on how large a footprint OpenStack is managing.

The best place you would install the services of Trove would be on the controller node, except of course the guest agent, which will be installed on the instance that Nova spins up.

If there are multiple controller nodes (in the case of an HA install of OpenStack), you will have to install the Trove components on both of them.

Take a backup

Now that we have chosen to use the controller node as the place where we will install the Trove server components, frequently, the controller node is normally...