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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

Summary


See now that was not so bad, right? Ansible really does a great job in streamlining the effort involved in automating OpenStack administrative tasks. You can now reuse that role over and over again, cutting the amount of time creating users and projects down to single digit minutes. The time investment is well worth the benefits.

In this chapter, we created users and projects within OpenStack via the API and CLI. We gathered an understanding of basic automation considerations. We also developed Ansible playbooks and roles to automate the user and project creation.

With this great foundation, we are ready to move on to our next administrative task of customizing your clouds quotas. The next chapter will include a general understanding of what quotas are and how they are used within your OpenStack cloud. We will then transition to the exercise of creating quotas manually and then concluding with how to automate that task with Ansible. See you in Chapter 4Customizing Your Clouds Quotas...