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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

Non-OpenStack service checks


We are not going to cover generic non-OpenStack service checks in depth here. There is plenty of information you can search for on the Internet that can guide you on generic service checks. We will put these and the OpenStack service checks into /etc/nagios/conf.d/nagios_service.cfg. For OpenStack, it is important to at least add a host load and a disk usage check for each host. OpenStack can consume an excessive amount of disk space and processor load, and the whole cluster can become cranky very quickly if either is used beyond one of the hosts' capacity. There are many other generic checks that can and maybe should be added to your OpenStack hosts, though you will have to research others and choose the checks that you deem advantageous. Here are examples of the configurations for checking the load and disk space on /var:

define service { 
check_command check_nrpe!load5 
host_name control 
normal_check_interval 5 
service_description 5 minute load average 
use...