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OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2

You're reading from   OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 Automate and monitor administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121638
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Walter Bentley Walter Bentley
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to OpenStack 2. Introduction to Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Multiple Users/Projects 4. Customizing Your Clouds Quotas 5. Snapshot Your Cloud 6. Migrating Instances 7. Managing Containers on Your Cloud 8. Setting Up Active-Active Regions 9. Inventory Your Cloud 10. Health Check Your Cloud with Nagios

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Our OpenStack administration toolbox is starting to look pretty full by this point in the book. Cannot stress enough how important it is to have a snapshot of your cloud state. These reports could be a good starting point to having that.  Before concluding this chapter, let's take a moment to recap this chapter. Together we reviewed some gaps in OpenStack regarding reports on the clouds inventory and how you can overcome them. Then details were provided on how you can get access to the metrics and statistics we would need by querying the database.  Next, we examined the custom SQL queries used to pull out the data from the database in detail. Finally, we developed Ansible playbook and role to automate generating the cloud reports. 

It saddens me a bit to say that the next chapter is our last chapter. With that said, it most certainly happens to probably be one of the most important chapters. Knowing the health of your cloud is tantamount to having a working OpenStack ecosystem. Due...

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