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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
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Preface

Building and deploying containers


In this section, we will learn how to design, build, and deploy containers to various container technologies. The breakdown of topics we will cover here are listed as follows:

  • Building Containers with Ansible Container

  • Deploying Kubernetes on OpenStack

  • Managing CoreOS and Docker with Ansible

  • Deploying Nova LXD on OpenStack

As mentioned previously, we will first start with learning how to build our first container using what I consider to be the easiest container tool there is, Ansible Container. Hope you are excited because I surely am, let's go!

Building containers with Ansible Container

What is Ansible Container?

Ansible describes Ansible Container as "the ultimate workflow for container development, testing, and deployment"                                                  –  (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-container)

Consider it a workflow tool that enables you to not only build Docker images but also orchestrate the deployment of them and applications using...