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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By : Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
Book Image

Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By: Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta

Overview of this book

In this second edition, you will get to grips with the latest features of OpenStack. Starting with an overview of the OpenStack architecture, you'll see how to adopt the DevOps style of automation while deploying and operating in an OpenStack environment. We'll show you how to create your own OpenStack private cloud. Then you'll learn about various hypervisors and container technology supported by OpenStack. You'll get an understanding about the segregation of compute nodes based on reliability and availability needs. We'll cover various storage types in OpenStack and advanced networking aspects such as SDN and NFV. Next, you'll understand the OpenStack infrastructure from a cloud user point of view. Moving on, you'll develop troubleshooting skills, and get a comprehensive understanding of services such as high availability and failover in OpenStack. Finally, you will gain experience of running a centralized logging server and monitoring OpenStack services. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs. You will be able to master OpenStack benchmarking and performance tuning. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Advanced Networking - A Look at SDN and NFV

"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world."
- Malcolm X

Networking is one of the most complex services in the cloud-computing stack. The advent of cloud computing has put extraordinary demands on the networking service. The modern network service, on the one hand, must be able to deal with the use cases of extreme flexibility for connecting arbitrary endpoints. On the other hand, the networking infrastructure must provide high performance communication channels and allow for quick provisioning of new services.

The service providers are looking for a minimal ordering lead time to provision new infrastructure for ever-increasing demand for network services, while at the same time they demand an infrastructure that can...