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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

Introduction to Murano


 

Murano is the OpenStack application catalog service, which provides various cloud-ready applications to be easily deployed on OpenStack, abstracting all the complexities behind. It simplifies the packaging and deployment of various applications on top of OpenStack IaaS. It is an integration point for external applications and OpenStack with the support of complete life cycle management of applications. Murano applications can be run inside Docker containers or Kubernetes Pod.

Murano is a powerful solution for end users, looking for application deployment on top of OpenStack, who don't want to worry about deployment complexities.

The following is a list of features provided by Murano:

  • Provides production ready applications and dynamic UI
  • Supports running containerized application
  • Supports provisioning applications on both Windows and Linux systems
  • Secures data with Barbican
  • Supports running application packages using Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT)
  • Deploys multiregion application...