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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

Summary


The Trove system, when set up properly, can ease administration overheads, reduce wait time for database instances, and help the DBA to focus their energies on performing tasks such as query optimization.

Some of the benefits you can offer your enterprises by implementing Trove are enforce security, compliance, and best practices – since provisioning and management are highly automated, Trove is the best mechanism to implement security and enterprise-wide best practices practically at no cost. With Trove, you can choose the database of your choice depending on the use case and yet manage them seamlessly. And then we have agility – faster provisioning that helps you innovate at a faster rate and improved turnaround times for support.

We hope that this book helped you with the fundamental skills that are required for you to kickstart your Trove learning and wish you a successful Database as Service journey.