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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

Reviewing OpenStack high availability scenarios


This topic happens to be one of those I always enjoy discussing. high availability (HA) and disaster recovery always become very emotional conversations among IT folks for obvious reasons. Your neck is on the line, so to speak, to make sure that your organization's systems remain online in the event of a disaster/failure. In days of old local system, HA and cold (unused) disaster recovery sites were good enough. The current agility of cloud now offers up new and better options for system stability. Do not settle for the old solutions. You have options!

As repeated earlier, there are multiple ways to accomplish HA with OpenStack. We will outline three possible scenarios that I have found to be successful and would meet most organizations' HA requirements. The three possible scenarios are listed here with a diagram to add additional context:

  • Multiple data centers: Multiple OpenStack regions are spanned across multiple geographically located data...