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Containers in OpenStack

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Containers in OpenStack

Overview of this book

Containers are one of the most talked about technologies of recent times. They have become increasingly popular as they are changing the way we develop, deploy, and run software applications. OpenStack gets tremendous traction as it is used by many organizations across the globe and as containers gain in popularity and become complex, it’s necessary for OpenStack to provide various infrastructure resources for containers, such as compute, network, and storage. Containers in OpenStack answers the question, how can OpenStack keep ahead of the increasing challenges of container technology? You will start by getting familiar with container and OpenStack basics, so that you understand how the container ecosystem and OpenStack work together. To understand networking, managing application services and deployment tools, the book has dedicated chapters for different OpenStack projects: Magnum, Zun, Kuryr, Murano, and Kolla. Towards the end, you will be introduced to some best practices to secure your containers and COE on OpenStack, with an overview of using each OpenStack projects for different use cases.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Key features


We have learned that Magnum provides various features in addition to the management of COE infrastructure in the previous section. In the following sections, we will talk about some of the advanced features present in Magnum.

External load balancer for Kubernetes

Magnum uses Flannel by default to provide networking for the resources in Kuberenetes. The pods and services can access each other and the external internet using this private container networking. However, these resources can't be accessed from an external network. To allow access from the external network, Magnum provides the support for setting up an external load balancer for a Kubernetes cluster.

Note

Please refer to https://docs.openstack.org/magnum/latest/user/#steps-for-the-cluster-administrator to set up a Kubernetes load balancer using Magnum.

Transport Layer Security

Magnum allows us to set up secure communication between a cluster's services and the outside world using TLS. The TLS communication in Magnum is employed...