OpenStack is a free and opensource software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The Bootcamp approach has short, intensive, and practical content comprising of a lot of real-world examples, OpenStack Bootcamp will provide the main architecture of OpenStack clouds, configuration of each OpenStack component and debugging techniques. Besides in-depth coverage of OpenStack technologies, hands-on exercises are also provided to make reader better understand and provide analysis of real-world cloud use cases and operation scenarios, covering design, customization and optimization.
Chapter 1, Day 1 - Build Your Camp, discusses the design principles of OpenStack and Cloud in general, the types of distributions, and setting up the lab environment for the hands-on chapters ahead.
Chapter 2, Day 2 - Know Your Battalion, focuses on an overview of each OpenStack core (KeyStone/Glance/Nova/Neutron/Cinder/Swift) components in detail and the real-world comparisons for the reader to understand with the ease and to learn how to use each of them.
Chapter 3, Day 3 - Field Sketch, looks at the architecture design and how the components of OpenStack are connected, followed by deployment use cases. The reader will understand the high level architectural design of OpenStack and will be able to plan and design their own deployment use cases so they can build their OpenStack cloud.Chapter 4, Day 4 - How Stuff Works, will explain the step-by-step process of the VM provision happens in OpenStack when the user initiate VM create from horizon and the interrelationship between each OpenStack services.
Chapter 5, Day 5 - Networking Strategy, focuses on OpenStack networking in detail and the extended feature available in OpenStack neutron. This chapter covers the role of floating IPs, the available deployment types in the neutron, how the VM packets being encapsulated t to reach the destination VM and the packet flow between VMs and the internet.
Chapter 6, Day 6 - Field Training Exercise, will deals with the hands training on how to use the OpenStack Horizon for using all the OpenStack core components will be provided in this chapter. The reader will gain the hands-on experience with the OpenStack horizon and understand how each individual component worked interconnected in bringing up the Cloud environment.
Chapter 7, Day 7 - Collective Training, will provide with the undisclosed tasks for the readers to take this chapter as exam. The Comprehensive practice with admin and end-user use cases will test the reader’s ability in understanding the OpenStack environment.
Chapter 8, Day 8 - Build Your OpenStack, this chapter will guide through a step-by-step package-based installation of the Ocata OpenStack on the Ubuntu operating system.
Chapter 9, Day 9 - Repair OpenStack, discusses how to start with troubleshooting each OpenStack components and the respective log files to look in. This chapter will also provide the guidance to the reader on how to start with getting help from OpenStack community.
Chapter 10, Day 10 - Side Arms of OpenStack, will walk through the overview of additional services available in the OpenStack and its scope in high level. The reader will learn the overview of optional services in OpenStack and its interrelation with the OpenStack core components.
You can benefit greatly by having a system running VirtualBox (or any of its alternatives) and a virtual machine running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The commands and resources discussed in this book are best learned when you can execute them on the test system. Familiarity with the Linux command-line and experience with Linux system administration is expected.
This book is perfect for administrators, cloud engineers, and operators who wants to jump right into practical knowledge, exercises, and solving the basic problems encountered during deployment, in order to get up to speed with the latest release of OpenStack.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "OpenStack services can be installed either as root or as a user withsudo permissions."
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
# nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen"
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