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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By : Dan Radez
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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By: Dan Radez

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a widely popular platform for cloud computing. Applications that are built for this platform are resilient to failure and convenient to scale. This book, an update to our extremely popular OpenStack Essentials (published in May 2015) will help you master not only the essential bits, but will also examine the new features of the latest OpenStack release - Mitaka; showcasing how to put them to work straight away. This book begins with the installation and demonstration of the architecture. This book will tech you the core 8 topics of OpenStack. They are Keystone for Identity Management, Glance for Image management, Neutron for network management, Nova for instance management, Cinder for Block storage, Swift for Object storage, Ceilometer for Telemetry and Heat for Orchestration. Further more you will learn about launching and configuring Docker containers and also about scaling them horizontally. You will also learn about monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have taken a look at some of the architecture and workflow of a few of the components of OpenStack. Knowing how the components operate will help you to troubleshoot issues when they arise in your OpenStack cluster. With the number of modules that are present in OpenStack, you have to follow the order of operations that are being run, validate their success, and check for errors as you go along.

Having looked at troubleshooting OpenStack, we have come to the end of this book. The information in this book is core to OpenStack and defines many of the basic concepts and methodologies that are baked into the OpenStack project. The project moves quickly, and new features are added very rapidly, but because the information here is central to a base installation of OpenStack, you should be able to reference the majority of this book for many releases to come from the OpenStack project.