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Mastering OpenStack

You're reading from Mastering OpenStack Design, deploy, and manage clouds in mid to large IT infrastructures

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463982

Length 470 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

OpenStack

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Chandan Dutta

Omar Khedher

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration FREE CHAPTER

2. Deploying OpenStack - The DevOps Way

3. OpenStack Cluster – The Cloud Controller and Common Services

4. OpenStack Compute - Choice of Hypervisor and Node Segregation

5. OpenStack Storage - Block, Object, and File Share

6. OpenStack Networking - Choice of Connectivity Types and Networking Services

7. Advanced Networking - A Look at SDN and NFV

8. Operating the OpenStack Infrastructure - The User Perspective

9. OpenStack HA and Failover

10. Monitoring and Troubleshooting - Running a Healthy OpenStack Cluster

11. Keeping Track of Logs - ELK and OpenStack

12. OpenStack Benchmarking and Performance Tuning - Maintaining Cloud Performance

Divide and conquer

OpenStack was designed to be horizontally scalable; we have already seen how
its functions have been widely distributed into multiple services. The services themselves are composed of the API server, schedulers, workers, and agents. While the OpenStack controller runs the API services, the compute, storage, and network nodes run the agents and workers.

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Authors (3)

Omar Khedher

Omar Khedher

Omar Khedher is a cloud architect with more than 12 years of experience in the cloud computing market. He has been involved in several private and public cloud projects, including OpenStack, AWS, and Azure. He has also authored several other books, including the first and second editions of Mastering OpenStack, OpenStack Sahara Essentials, and Extending OpenStack. Omar has a few academic publications about cloud performance. As a part of the Cloudreach team, an international cloud consulting company, he helps customers to design, advises on, and leads projects targeting cloud migration and innovation.

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Omar Khedher

Omar Khedher

Omar Khedher is a cloud architect with more than 12 years of experience in the cloud computing market. He has been involved in several private and public cloud projects, including OpenStack, AWS, and Azure. He has also authored several other books, including the first and second editions of Mastering OpenStack, OpenStack Sahara Essentials, and Extending OpenStack. Omar has a few academic publications about cloud performance. As a part of the Cloudreach team, an international cloud consulting company, he helps customers to design, advises on, and leads projects targeting cloud migration and innovation.

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Chandan Dutta

Chandan Dutta

Chandan Dutta Chowdhury is a tech lead at Juniper Networks Pvt. Ltd, working on

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