If we wanted to take a pragmatic approach, the public cloud that is now connected to our data center could also become a simplistic hybrid cloud, but we will set up a private OpenStack cloud to take it a notch higher.Â
In the last chapter, we learnt about the architecture of OpenStack. There are a variety of ways to set up OpenStack. We can use several install methods such as Juju Charms, OpenStack Ansible (OSA), and so on. But for our example, we will install a DevStack OpenStack instance on a single server.
The DevStack install is not a production-ready deployment, it is used for development. However, for the purposes of explaining the private cloud, this will be more than sufficient. We will look at some of the design principles for it before we go to the actual implementation.
