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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

Configuring volume types


Volume types in Cinder are a label or identifier that is selected during volume creation. Typically, volume types correspond with some attribute of the volumes, for example, SSD, High IOPS, and Encrypted. We will use this with the next recipe to define further features of our Cinder service.

Getting ready

To create a volume type, you will need the following:

  • An openrc file with appropriate credentials for the environment (you must be an administrator)

  • The openstack command-line client

  • The name of the volume type to create. For our example, we will create the "High IOPS" volume type as a contrived example type that would refer to a block storage device dedicated to High IOPS.

How to do it…

We will use the openstack volume type command to operate on Cinder volume types. To create a volume type, use the following steps:

  1. First, list the existing volume types:

    openstack volume type list
    

    This will bring back an output like the following. Here we have the default set when we installed...