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Containers in OpenStack

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Containers in OpenStack

Overview of this book

Containers are one of the most talked about technologies of recent times. They have become increasingly popular as they are changing the way we develop, deploy, and run software applications. OpenStack gets tremendous traction as it is used by many organizations across the globe and as containers gain in popularity and become complex, it’s necessary for OpenStack to provide various infrastructure resources for containers, such as compute, network, and storage. Containers in OpenStack answers the question, how can OpenStack keep ahead of the increasing challenges of container technology? You will start by getting familiar with container and OpenStack basics, so that you understand how the container ecosystem and OpenStack work together. To understand networking, managing application services and deployment tools, the book has dedicated chapters for different OpenStack projects: Magnum, Zun, Kuryr, Murano, and Kolla. Towards the end, you will be introduced to some best practices to secure your containers and COE on OpenStack, with an overview of using each OpenStack projects for different use cases.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about Murano, which is the application catalog service for OpenStack, in detail. We looked into the different concepts available in Murano. Then, you also learned about the components and architecture of Murano. The chapter also gave a detailed overview of the workflow of a user request for deploying an application with Murano. Then we saw how to install a development setup of Murano using DevStack, and we did a hands-on on using the Murano dashboard to create an environment, add applications to it, and deploy the environment.

In the next chapter, you will learn about Kolla, which provides production ready containers and tools for deployment of the OpenStack services.