Architecting the cloud
Identifying the initial use case of your OpenStack environment is a major key to a successful start of the cloud journey. With a vast array of features, especially within the latest releases, the cloud management platform has become more mature than ever, but that might be overwhelming. Sidetracking the purpose of your OpenStack implementation would increase management complexity and potentially put your business at risk if such investment is not carefully accompanied by a vision. For this purpose, drafting your design into different iterations will help you avoid being blocked by the paradox of choices and unleash a clear short-term vision toward the longer one. As the first design iteration, we will simply identify our conceptual OpenStack model, followed by the logical architecture. Once drafted, we will walk through the practical implementation and put some numbers together to reflect our first deployment picture in the hardware.
