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Extending OpenStack

By : Omar Khedher
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Extending OpenStack

By: Omar Khedher

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a very popular cloud computing platform that has enabled several organizations during the last few years to successfully implement their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. This book will guide you through new features of the latest OpenStack releases and how to bring them into production straightaway in an agile way. It starts by showing you how to expand your current OpenStack setup and how to approach your next OpenStack Data Center generation deployment. You will discover how to extend your storage and network capacity and also take advantage of containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes in OpenStack. Additionally, you'll explore the power of big data as a Service terminology implemented in OpenStack by integrating the Sahara project. This book will teach you how to build Hadoop clusters and launch jobs in a very simple way. Then you'll automate and deploy applications on top of OpenStack. You will discover how to write your own plugin in the Murano project. The final part of the book will go through best practices for security such as identity, access management, and authentication exposed by Keystone in OpenStack. By the end of this book, you will be ready to extend and customize your private cloud based on your requirements.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to develop a Murano package by going through the structure of an application package, and acquired a basic understating of its workflow. You should feel more confident in driving more customized applications and bringing them to the cloud through the application catalog service, thanks to the Murano programming language. As mentioned in the previous chapter, Cloud Application Publishers can use Heat orchestration templates to create and import them into the application catalog service. However, introducing the MuranoPL programming language has ultimately yielded a richer user experience in terms of flexibility and customization of the package layout. In addition, to drive a great Murano application development experience, it is recommended that you include a continuous integration pipeline that gathers cloud application developers and administrators...