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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By : Dan Radez
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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By: Dan Radez

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing more control nodes


Adding more control nodes adds more complexity than adding compute nodes. Generally, when additional control nodes are added, each of the control services need to be scaled and the database and message bus need to become highly available.

Triple-O has the capability to install and configure highly available scaled services for you. There is a wealth of documentation on OpenStack's Triple-O Wiki at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/. Be sure to take a look at the documentation there if you are trying to deploy something that has not been covered in this book.

As long as there are bare-metal nodes available, just a few extra parameters need to be added to the overcloud deploy command to deploy a multi-control node deployment. It is not recommended to update an existing control tier. It is recommended to plan ahead accordingly and deploy all the control nodes for the first using these parameters. Here is an example of a deployment that would have three...