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OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 - Second Edition

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OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Most organizations are seeking methods to improve business agility because they have realized just having a cloud is not enough. Being able to improve application deployments, reduce infrastructure downtime, and eliminate daily manual tasks can only be accomplished through some sort of automation. We start with a brief overview of OpenStack and Ansible 2 and highlight some best practices. Each chapter will provide an introduction to handling various Cloud Operator administration tasks such as managing containers within your cloud; setting up/utilizing open source packages for monitoring; creating multiple users/tenants; taking instance snapshots; and customizing your cloud to run multiple active regions. Each chapter will also supply a step-by-step tutorial on how to automate these tasks with Ansible 2. Packed with real-world OpenStack administrative tasks, this book will walk you through working examples and explain how these tasks can be automated using one of the most popular open source automation tools on the market today.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up Active-Active cloud regions


The process to implement it is relatively straightforward, but it does require distinct attention to detail. Outlining the steps beforehand I have found to be very useful and avoid missing steps. I have also learned that performing the changes manually (aka by hand) does not normally end well either. The process of editing the services configuration files does leave open the door of making edits by mistake, which leads to services that will not start. No good!!! Not even mentioning that it makes the process to implement take three times as long. First, we will review the steps manually and then in the following section, we will learn how to automate the setup process as much as possible. All I can say is thank heavens for Ansible!

In this section, we will review the manual steps to set up Active-Active OpenStack cloud regions. A brief snapshot of the steps is outlined here:

  1. Inventory each region's endpoints and take note of the URLs.

  2. Create service user...