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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

Backup prerequisites


The requisites for backup are fairly simple:

  • We have a database for which backup has to be taken.

  • The Swift system is configured and accessible. (In DevStack, please check if the Swift services are enabled.)

  • There is space in the Swift system to store backups.

  • All required configuration options are in place.

In our case, we don't have to worry about the last point as we will leave the entire configuration to the default values. Also, we have the second and third point taken care of. Since we are using MySQL as the database, the first point also has been satisfied. (Please note that while creating the DIB image, we installed the InnoDB tool by using the ubuntu-mysql element provided. So, we are good to go.)