▶Book Description
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.
▶What You Will Learn
- Understand, install, configure, and manage a complete OpenStack Cloud platform using OpenStack-Ansible
- Configure networks, routers, load balancers, and more with Neutron
- Use Keystone to setup domains, roles, groups and user access
- Learn how to use Swift and setup container access control lists
- Gain hands-on experience and familiarity with Horizon, the OpenStack Dashboard user interface
- Automate complete solutions with our recipes on Heat, the OpenStack Orchestration service as well as using Ansible to orchestrate application workloads
- Follow practical advice and examples to run OpenStack in production
▶Key Features
- Over 100 recipes created by a team of OpenStack experts
- Updated to work with the latest OpenStack builds, with recipes covering the installation and use of OpenStack with Ansible
- It covers topics such as Keystone, Glance, Neutron, Nova, Cinder, and more, plus recipes for OpenStack storage, networking, and orchestrating workloads
- Test drive OpenStack using the accompanying Vagrant environment
▶Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at system administrators and technical architects moving from a virtualized environment to cloud environments who are familiar with cloud computing platforms. Knowledge of virtualization and managing Linux environments is expected. Prior knowledge or experience of OpenStack is not required, although beneficial.
▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Installing OpenStack with Ansible, walks you through a practical installation of OpenStack using OpenStack-Ansible.
- Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, shows you how to install the tools needed to operate OpenStack, as well as providing a quick reference to commonly used commands.
- Chapter 3, Keystone –- OpenStack Identity Service, explains how to use Keystone to configure and maintain services and projects within OpenStack.
- Chapter 4, Neutron –- OpenStack Networking, covers the introduction and use of the softwaredefined networking service and its plugins.
- Chapter 5, Nova –- OpenStack Compute, works through a number of examples of running and operating virtual machine instances to run your applications.
- Chapter 6, Glance –- OpenStack Image Service, explores the use of the machine images that are used to spawn instances.
- Chapter 7, Cinder –- OpenStack Block Storage, presents how to work with block storage volumes to attach to your instances.
- Chapter 8, Swift –- OpenStack Object Storage, depicts how to use the highly available and redundant object storage service.
- Chapter 9, OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible, discusses how to begin orchestrating your workloads within OpenStack using both Heat and Ansible.
- Chapter 10, Using OpenStack Dashboard, shows you how to navigate the Horizon user-interface dashboard.
