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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

Understanding the data store


Before we start exploring Ceilometer, it is important to know that, by default, Ceilometer uses MongoDB to store all of its telemetry data. This data store can grow very rapidly and can use excess space. It is in your interest to keep Mongo's data store separate from the root partition of your control node so that the telemetry data does not fill up your control node's root disk. OpenStack has a horrible time functioning without a disk to write to. Mongo's data store is /var/lib/mongodb/ by default. A simple way to be sure that the node's root disk doesn't fill up would be to mount another partition, logical volume, or some other external storage to /var/lib/mongodb/. If there isn't any important data in Ceilometer, you can even stop the MongoDB service, delete the contents of the data store directory, mount the new storage, ensure the ownership is correct, and restart the central and collector services of both the MongoDB and Ceilometer APIs. The files that...