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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook

You're reading from OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788398763

Length 398 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

OpenStack

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

James Denton

Egle Sigler

Cody Bunch

Kevin Jackson

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition

Contributors

Preface

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1. Installing OpenStack with Ansible FREE CHAPTER

2. The OpenStack Client

3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service

4. Neutron – OpenStack Networking

5. Nova – OpenStack Compute

6. Glance – OpenStack Image Service

7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage

8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage

9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible

10. Using OpenStack Dashboard

Index

Introduction to OpenStack Compute

Compute services in OpenStack are provided by a project that goes by the name Nova. Nova is an API-driven system that manages physical and virtual compute resources in an OpenStack cloud, providing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). OpenStack operators, administrators, and users can leverage the Nova API to manage the life cycle of compute resources.

Nova is primarily responsible for managing two resource types: instances, which are the running virtual machines, application containers, or even full bare-metal machines a user has requested, and hosts, that provide the hardware resources required by instances. In most circumstances, instances are synonymous to virtual machines.

It is important to make a distinction between two main features of Nova: the Nova API service (and associated services such as the nova-scheduler, nova-conductor, and nova-placement), which runs on our cluster of three controller nodes, and the nova-compute service, which runs on each...

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Authors (4)

James Denton

James Denton

James Denton is a Principal Architect at Rackspace with over 15 years of experience in systems administration and networking. He has a bachelor's degree in Business Management with a focus on Computer Information Systems from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He is currently focused on OpenStack operations and support within the Rackspace Private Cloud team. James is the author of the Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), first and second editions, as well as OpenStack Networking Essentials, both by Packt Publishing.

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Cody Bunch

Cody Bunch

Cody Bunch is a principal architect in the Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of

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Egle Sigler

Egle Sigler

Egle Sigler is an OpenStack Foundation board member and a principal architect in the Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of San Antonio, Texas. Egle holds an MS degree in computer science. She started her career as a software developer and still has a soft spot for all the people who write, test, and deploy code, since she has had the chance to do all of these tasks throughout her career. Egle dreams about a day when writing, testing, and deploying code will be a seamless and easy process—bug and frustration free for all. Egle believes that knowledge should be shared and has tried to do this by writing this book, giving talks and workshops at conferences, and blogging.

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Kevin Jackson

Kevin Jackson

Kevin Jackson is married and has three children. He is an IT professional with over 20 years of experience, working with businesses and enterprises of all sizes at Rackspace, as an OpenStack and private cloud specialist. Kevin has been working with OpenStack since the fist release, and he has extensive experience of various flavors of Linux, Unix, and hosting environments. Kevin authored the fist edition of this book, and coauthored the second and third editions. Kevin also coauthored OpenStack Architecture Design Guide, OpenStack Foundation, during a 5-day book sprint in California. He also regularly speaks at OpenStack community events.

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