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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch, Egle Sigler, James Denton
Book Image

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch, Egle Sigler, James Denton

Overview of this book

This is the fourth edition of the industry-acclaimed OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, created by four recognized OpenStack experts. It has now been updated to work with the latest OpenStack builds, using tools and processes based on their collective and vast OpenStack experience. OpenStack Open Source Cloud software is one of the most used cloud infrastructures to support a wide variety of use cases, from software development to big data analysis. It is developed by a thriving community of individual developers from around the globe and backed by most of the leading players in the cloud space today. We make it simple to implement, massively scalable, and able to store a large pool of data and networking resources. OpenStack has a strong ecosystem that helps you provision your cloud storage needs. Add OpenStack's enterprise features to reduce the cost of your business. This book will begin by showing you the steps to build up an OpenStack private cloud environment using Ansible. You'll then discover the uses of cloud services such as the identity service, image service, and compute service. You'll dive into Neutron, the OpenStack Networking service, and get your hands dirty with configuring networks, routers, load balancers, and more. You’ll then gather more expert knowledge on OpenStack cloud computing by managing your cloud's security and migration. After that, we delve into OpenStack Object storage and you’ll see how to manage servers and work with objects, cluster, and storage functionalities. Finally, you will learn about OpenStack dashboard, Ansible, Keystone, and other interesting topics.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition
Contributors
Preface
Another Book You May Enjoy
Index

Common OpenStack storage tasks


This section outlines a number of common tasks using the OpenStack Block and Object Storage service. For more information on storage, refer to Chapter 7, Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage and Chapter 8, Swift – OpenStack Object Storage.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have the OpenStack clients installed, as described in the first recipes of this chapter.

How to do it…

Carry out the following steps to create and modify users and projects in OpenStack:

Create a new Cinder volume

To create a new Cinder block storage volume, carry out the following command. The size is in gigabytes:

openstack volume create --size 5 my5GVolume

Attaching a volume

To attach a volume to a running instance, carry out the following command. The running instance UUID is used and can be found by listing the running instances:

openstack server add volume my5GVolume 58ea640b-16ba-447c-85db-952174d70f7c

Detaching a volume

To detach a volume, first unmount it from the running instance as you would normally...