One of the foundations of OpenStack is that it was built to run on generic commodity hardware and is intended to scale out horizontally very easily. Scaling horizontally means adding more commodity servers to get the job done. Scaling vertically means getting larger, more specialized servers. Whether the servers you run have a handful of processors and a few gigabytes of RAM, or double digits of processors and RAM approaching or exceeding terabytes, OpenStack will run on your servers. Further, whatever assortment of servers of varying horsepower you have collected, they can all be joined into an OpenStack cluster to run the API services, service agents, and hypervisors within the cluster. The only hard requirement is that your processors have virtualization extensions built into them, which is pretty much a standard feature in most modern-day processors. In this chapter, we will look at the process of scaling an OpenStack cluster horizontally on the control...
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Overview of this book
OpenStack is a widely popular platform for cloud computing. Applications that are built for this platform are resilient to failure and convenient to scale. This book, an update to our extremely popular OpenStack Essentials (published in May 2015) will help you master not only the essential bits, but will also examine the new features of the latest OpenStack release - Mitaka; showcasing how to put them to work straight away.
This book begins with the installation and demonstration of the architecture. This book will tech you the core 8 topics of OpenStack. They are Keystone for Identity Management, Glance for Image management, Neutron for network management, Nova for instance management, Cinder for Block storage, Swift for Object storage, Ceilometer for Telemetry and Heat for Orchestration. Further more you will learn about launching and configuring Docker containers and also about scaling them horizontally. You will also learn about monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack.
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
RDO Installation
Identity Management
Image Management
Network Management
Instance Management
Block Storage
Object Storage
Telemetry
Orchestration
Docker
Scaling Horizontally
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Index
Customer Reviews