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Mastering OpenStack

You're reading from   Mastering OpenStack Design, deploy, and manage a scalable OpenStack infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784395643
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Omar Khedher Omar Khedher
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designing OpenStack Cloud Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying OpenStack – DevOps and OpenStack Dual Deal 3. Learning OpenStack Clustering – Cloud Controllers and Compute Nodes 4. Learning OpenStack Storage – Deploying the Hybrid Storage Model 5. Implementing OpenStack Networking and Security 6. OpenStack HA and Failover 7. OpenStack Multinode Deployment – Bringing in Production 8. Extending OpenStack – Advanced Networking Features and Deploying Multi-tier Applications 9. Monitoring OpenStack – Ceilometer and Zabbix 10. Keeping Track for Logs – Centralizing Logs with Logstash 11. Tuning OpenStack Performance – Advanced Configuration Index

Eat the elephant

At first sight, you may wonder what is the best automation tool that will be useful for our OpenStack "production day". We have already chosen Git and Jenkins to handle our continuous and delivery code infrastructure. It is time to choose the right tool for automation.

Eventually, it might be difficult to select the right tool. Most likely, you'll have to choose between several of them. Covering all the existing IT automation tools could fill an entire book or even books. Therefore, giving succinct hints on different tools might be helpful in order to distinguish the best outfit for certain particular setups. Of course, we are still talking about large infrastructures with heterogeneous systems, a lot of networking, and distributed services.

Giving the chance for one or more tools to be selected as system management parties can be effective and fast for our deployment. We will use Chef for the next deployment phase.

Preparing the infrastructure code environment...

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