OpenStack Operations Guide: Set Up and Manage Your OpenStack Cloud

by Tom Fifield, Diane Fleming, Anne Gentle

Design, deploy, and maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), using the open source OpenStack platform. In this practical guide, experienced developers and OpenStack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures, as well as how to perform daily administration tasks.

Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud by integrating several technologies. This approach provides flexibility, but knowing which options to use can be bewildering. Once you complete this book, you'll know the right questions to ask while you organize compute, storage, and networking resources. If you already know how to manage multiple Ubuntu machines and maintain MySQL, you're ready


Set up automated deployment and configuration
Design a single-node cloud controller
Use metrics to improve scalability
Explore compute nodes, network design, and storage
Install OpenStack packages
Use an example architecture to help simplify decision-making
Build a working environment to explore an IaaS cloud
Manage users, projects, and quotas
Tackle maintenance, debugging, and network troubleshooting
Monitor, log, backup, and restore

Genres: Technical

542 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 24, 2014

Reviews

[Andrey Volkov · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is more like an introduction to openstack. The first chapter (Architecture) gives common description of openstack services and theirs cooperation and would be useful for novice and mid-prepared users.

The second chapter (Operations) is quite boring from my side and looks like ordinary user's guide. Except Network Troubleshooting section which is very interesting as it collects great experience of SDN engineers.

I must note that Appendixes Use Cases and Tales are really most encouraging and exciting parts of the book. Some information in the book is outdated but it's opensource one and worth to look at in my opinion.

[Ayoub · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book delves deep into the deployment and configuration scenarios of openstack from the theory perspective. You have to have basic knowledge of openstack and SDN for the book to be informative, focuses mostly on enterprise and brings utmost of best practices.

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