OpenStack for Architects Second Edition

▶Book Description
Over the past six years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, including industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders, such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE, has led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Due to its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill set to design and implement it.

OpenStack for Architects leads you through the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. This book will address the recent changes made in the latest OpenStack release i.e Queens, and will also deal with advanced concepts such as containerization, NVF, and security. At each point, the authors offer you advice based on the experience they've gained from designing and leading successful OpenStack projects in a wide range of industries. Each chapter also includes lab material that gives you a chance to install and configure the technologies used to build production-quality OpenStack clouds. Most importantly, the book focuses on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout.

▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Learn the overall structure of an OpenStack deployment
⦁ Craft an OpenStack deployment process which fits within your organization
⦁ Apply Agile Development methodologies to engineer and operate OpenStack clouds
⦁ Build a product roadmap for Infrastructure as a Service based on OpenStack
⦁ Make use of containers to increase the manageability and resiliency of applications running in and on OpenStack.
⦁ Use enterprise security guidelines for your OpenStack deployment

▶Key Features
⦁ Gain hands-on experience in designing a private cloud for all infrastructures
⦁ Create a robust virtual environment for your organization
⦁ Design, implement and deploy an OpenStack-based cloud based on the Queens release

▶Who This Book Is For
OpenStack for Architects is for Cloud architects who are responsible to design and implement a private cloud with OpenStack. System engineers and enterprise architects will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of core OpenStack services, as well as some working experience of concepts, is recommended.

▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Introduction to OpenStack, provides an overview of the OpenStack project. It covers the history, goals, governance, and components of the software. It also provides some examples of how the software has been used successfully in different industries to entice the reader to follow through the rest of the book. Finally, it provides the reader with an initial plan for architecting an OpenStack cloud.

⦁ Chapter 2, Architecting the Cloud, walks the reader through the initial set of choices that an organization makes when first designing their OpenStack cloud. Options are presented with guidance for software, hardware, network, and storage selection. In addition, physical site placement is discussed.

⦁ Chapter 3, Planning for Failure, covers design decisions that impact the scalability and availability of the cloud.

⦁ Chapter 4, Building the Deployment Pipeline, introduces the tenants of DevOps and translates them into a continuously integrated and delivered OpenStack deployment. The available configuration management system options for OpenStack are discussed, and the tools for driving automated builds are described.

⦁ Chapter 5, Building to Operate, covers day 2 management of OpenStack clouds and how architects can simplify operations through planning. Various tools and methods for monitoring, orchestration, and analytics are introduced.

⦁ Chapter 6, Integrating the Platform, describes the various integration strategies available for OpenStack clouds. Topics ranging from active directory integration to SOA Governance and API contracts are covered.

⦁ Chapter 7, Securing the Cloud, covers design considerations for the virtual environment inside of the OpenStack cloud.

⦁ Chapter 8, OpenStack Use Cases, walks the reader through some of the most popular use cases for OpenStack. Physical and virtual considerations for each use case and sample configurations are given.

⦁ Chapter 9, Containers, shows that the adoption of containers is dramatically changing the way we deploy and use OpenStack today. This chapter explores how to best use them to improve deployments.

⦁ Chapter 10, Conclusion, provides some forward-looking guidance on emerging technologies in the OpenStack space and how to integrate them into the deployment from earlier in the book.