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Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By : Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
Book Image

Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

By: Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta

Overview of this book

In this second edition, you will get to grips with the latest features of OpenStack. Starting with an overview of the OpenStack architecture, you'll see how to adopt the DevOps style of automation while deploying and operating in an OpenStack environment. We'll show you how to create your own OpenStack private cloud. Then you'll learn about various hypervisors and container technology supported by OpenStack. You'll get an understanding about the segregation of compute nodes based on reliability and availability needs. We'll cover various storage types in OpenStack and advanced networking aspects such as SDN and NFV. Next, you'll understand the OpenStack infrastructure from a cloud user point of view. Moving on, you'll develop troubleshooting skills, and get a comprehensive understanding of services such as high availability and failover in OpenStack. Finally, you will gain experience of running a centralized logging server and monitoring OpenStack services. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs. You will be able to master OpenStack benchmarking and performance tuning. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

OpenStack HA under the hood

Deep down in the murky depths of HA, the setup of our magnificent OpenStack environment is much diversified! It may come across as a bit biased to favor a given HA setup, but remember that, depending on which software clustering solution you feel more comfortable with, you can implement your HA OpenStack setup.

Let's shine the spotlight brightly on our first OpenStack design in Chapter 1, Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration, and take a closer look at the pieces in the HA mode.

Next, we will move on to specific OpenStack core components and end up with exposing different possible topologies.

HA in the database

There's no doubt that behind any cluster lies a story! Creating your database in the HA mode in an OpenStack...