OK, so you have just been awarded with yet another powerful tool for your OpenStack administration toolbox. Being able to generate such reports by just executing one command is pretty cool, if I must admit it myself. Just like with all the other chapters, feel free to improve the roles created here. The only thing I ask of you is to share it with everyone else when possible. Before concluding this chapter, let's take a moment to recap this chapter. Together we reviewed some gaps in OpenStack regarding reports on the cloud inventory and how you can overcome them. Then details were provided on how you can access all these great metrics/stats directly from the OpenStack database. Next, we broke down and examined the SQL queries that are used to pull out the data from the database in detail. Lastly, we developed an Ansible playbook and role to automate generating the cloud reports.
It saddens me a bit to say that the next chapter is our last chapter. With that said, it most certainly...