60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack: Using the CloudStack Ecosystem

Goasguen, Sébastien

ISBN 10: 1491910135 / ISBN 13: 9781491910139

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack: Using the CloudStack Ecosystem
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491910135
• ISBN 13: 9781491910139
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Planning to deploy and maintain a public, private, or hybrid cloud service? This cookbook’s handy how-to recipes help you quickly learn and install Apache CloudStack, along with several API clients, API wrappers, data architectures, and configuration management technologies that work as part of CloudStack’s ecosystem.

You’ll learn how to use Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Fluentd, Libcloud, and several other open source tools that let you build and operate CloudStack better and faster. If you’re an experienced programmer, system administrator, or DevOps practitioner familiar with bash, Git, package management, and some Python, you’re ready to go.

• Learn basic CloudStack installation from source, including features such as DevCloud, the CloudStack sandbox
• Get a step-by-step guide for installing CloudStack from packages on Ubuntu 14.04 using KVM
• Write your own applications on top of the CloudStack API, using CloudMonkey, Libcloud, jclouds, and CloStack
• Expose different APIs on CloudStack with the EC2Stack, Boto, and Eutester API wrappers
• Deploy applications easily, using Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Chef, and Vagrant
• Dive into cloud monitoring and storage with RiakCS, Fluentd, and Apache Whirr

About the Author

Sebastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster in the late 90's when they were still called Beowulf clusters while working on his PhD; he has been working on making computing a utility since then. He has done research in grid computing and high performance computing and with the advent of virtualization moved to cloud computing in the mid 2000s. He is currently a Senior Open Source Solutions Architect at Citrix, where he works primarily on the Apache CloudStack project, helping develop the CloudStack ecosystem. Sebastien is a project management committee member (PMC) of CloudStack and Apache libcloud and a member of the Apache Software Foundation, he focuses on the cloud ecosystem and has contributed to Knife-cloudstack, Eutester and Ansible. He is also driving the localization effort of the CloudStack documentation using Transifex and ReadTheDocs.