OpenStack Operations Guide: Set Up and Manage Your OpenStack Cloud

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

Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud byintegrating several technologies. This approach provides flexibility, butknowing 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, andnetworking resources. If you already know how to manage multiple Ubuntumachines 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

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