OpenStack Operations Guide (Paperback)

Tom Fifield

ISBN 10: 1491946954 / ISBN 13: 9781491946954

Published by O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, 2014

About this Item

Paperback. Learn how to design, build, and maintain an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud that runs on commodity hardware with OpenStack, the community-driven open source platform. This practical guide shows you how to create an architecture for your cloud network and perform the required day-to-day administration tasks. Designed for scalability, OpenStack allows you to integrate several different technologies to construct a cloud. This approach provides great flexibility, but the number of options might be bewildering at first. After you complete this book, you'll know which questions to ask, and understand how to organize compute, networking, and storage resources. Written by a team of experienced developers and OpenStack contributors, topics include: Provisioning and deployment Cloud controller design Horizontal scaling and load balancing Compute nodes, storage decisions, and network design An example architecture to get you started A working environment for examining your cloud Managing projects and users User-facing operations Maintenance, failures, and debugging Network troubleshooting Logging and monitoring Backup and recovery Options for customizing OpenStack Advanced configuration 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: OpenStack Operations Guide (Paperback)
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491946954
• ISBN 13: 9781491946954
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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 to:

• 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

About the Author

Tom has been working on OpenStack clouds in production at the University of Melbourne and actively triages doc bugs as well as submitting many doc patches. Tom currently serves as an OpenStack community manager.