Summary

This chapter covers several topics on using OpenStack services from the user perspective. The beginning of the chapter provides a general background on how users can be assigned to projects. From an administrative perspective, it is essential to understand how quotas should be spread among a list of users by setting limits for the OpenStack resource consumption. The next part of this chapter unleashed the power of the orchestration service, Heat, in OpenStack. Discovering the greatness of such OpenStack project will allow users to treat their intended application infrastructure as code. You should be able to understand how Heat provisions resources in OpenStack using templates and without going through a manual and error-prone setup, either from Horizon or via the CLI. Additionally, a third-party and amazing tool comparable to Heat is explored: Terraform. We have seen how flexible and easy it is to manage...