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Mastering OpenStack

You're reading from   Mastering OpenStack Implement the latest techniques for designing and deploying an operational, production-ready private cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468913
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Omar Khedher Omar Khedher
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Architecting the OpenStack Ecosystem
2. Chapter 1: Revisiting OpenStack – Design Considerations FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Kicking Off the OpenStack Setup – The Right Way (DevSecOps) 4. Chapter 3: OpenStack Control Plane – Shared Services 5. Chapter 4: OpenStack Compute – Compute Capacity and Flavors 6. Chapter 5: OpenStack Storage – Block, Object, and File Shares 7. Chapter 6: OpenStack Networking – Connectivity and Managed Service Options 8. Part 2: Operating the OpenStack Cloud Environment
9. Chapter 7: Running a Highly Available Cloud – Meeting the SLA 10. Chapter 8: Monitoring and Logging – Remediating Proactively 11. Chapter 9: Benchmarking the Infrastructure – Evaluating Resource Capacity and Optimization 12. Part 3: Extending the OpenStack Cloud
13. Chapter 10: OpenStack Hybrid Cloud – Design Patterns 14. Chapter 11: A Hybrid Cloud Hyperscale Use Case – Scaling a Kubernetes Workload 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deploying in the cloud

Since the first release of OpenStack, several deployment tools and wrappers have been developed to assist OpenStack operators with more enhanced, easier ways to set up a fully running OpenStack environment. With the rise of system management tools such as Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, and Ansible, the OpenStack community has dedicated different channels to each system management tool to develop different classes and modules through the OpenStack ecosystem evolution. Which one of these tools we choose is down to familiarity or the technical requirements of cloud operators. In this section, Ansible will be the system management tool we use.

Ansible in a nutshell

Like any other system management tool, Ansible uses its own glossary and terms to define infrastructure components, modules, relationships, and parameters. Conversely, unlike other tools, Ansible comes with a simple architecture setup that makes it a popular choice, and it can be summarized as follows...

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