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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

About orchestration


In Chapter 5, Instance Management, we used Nova to launch instances in OpenStack. This example walked through launching a single instance or, if the instance count was increased, multiple instances with the same configuration. What if a collection of instances needed to be launched that required each of them to have a different configuration or they all needed to know about each other as part of their post-boot configuration? For example, maybe a different Glance image is needed for each instance or a different flavor is needed for the different roles within this collection of instances. It is even a possible requirement to control the order in which the instances are spawned to make sure that they are available in a specific order for post-boot configuration purposes. Enter orchestration. With OpenStack's orchestration component, Heat, all of these requirements and more can be met with Heat's capabilities.