Production Ready OpenStack - Recipes for Successful Environments

Over 90 practical and highly applicable recipes to successfully deploy various OpenStack configurations in production

Key Features

• Get a deep understanding of OpenStack's internal structure and services
• Learn real-world examples on how to build and configure various production grade use cases for each of OpenStack's services
• Use a step-by-step approach to install and configure OpenStack's services to provide Compute, Storage, and Networking as a services for cloud workloads

Book Description

What you will learn

• Plan an installation of OpenStack with a basic configuration
• Deploy OpenStack in a highly available configuration
• Configure Keystone Identity services with multiple types of identity backends
• Configure Glance Image Store with File, NFS, Swift, or Ceph image backends and use local image caching
• Design Cinder to use a single storage provider such as LVM, Ceph, and NFS backends, or to use multiple storage backends simultaneously
• Manage and configure the OpenStack networking backend
• Configure OpenStack s compute hypervisor and the instance scheduling mechanism
• Build and customize the OpenStack dashboard

Who this book is for

If you have a basic understanding of Linux and Cloud computing and want to learn about configurations that OpenStack supports, this is the book for you. Knowledge of virtualization and managing Linux environments is expected. Prior knowledge or experience of OpenStack is not required, although beneficial.