Using Ansible to orchestrate OpenStack

As opposed to the various cloud services we just discussed, all of which are public clouds, OpenStack allows you to create your own (private) cloud.

Private clouds have the disadvantage that they expose more complexity to the administrator and to the user, but this is the reason why they can be customized to suit an organization perfectly.

Installation

The first step to being able to control an OpenStack cluster with Ansible is to ensure that openstacksdk is installed.

To install openstacksdk, you need to execute the following command:

$ pip install openstacksdk

Now that you have installed openstacksdk, you can start the authentication process.

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