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OpenStack Cloud Security

You're reading from OpenStack Cloud Security Your OpenStack cloud storage contains all your vital computing resources and potentially sensitive data – secure it with this essential OpenStack tutorial

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782170983

Length 160 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

OpenStack

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Fabio Alessandro Locati

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. First Things First – Creating a Safe Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. OpenStack Security Challenges

3. Securing OpenStack Networking

4. Securing OpenStack Communications and Its API

5. Securing the OpenStack Identification and Authentication System and Its Dashboard

6. Securing OpenStack Storage

7. Securing the Hypervisor

Index

The OpenStack structure

OpenStack is an orchestration suite to create clouds mainly focused to create Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions. OpenStack has multiple components, each one aiming to provide a piece to the cloud. As I write, last OpenStack stable version is Juno that has the following components:

OpenStack Compute Service – Nova

Computing is one of the core parts of any IaaS solution, as well as OpenStack. This is also one of the two oldest modules of OpenStack, since it has been part of the project since its first version, Austin, which was released in October, 2010. Nova derives from NASA's Nebula platform.

Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller. It is designed to manage and automate pools of computer resources and can work with many hypervisors such as KVM, VMware, and Xen.

It is written in Python and uses many external libraries. Nova was created with horizontal scalability in mind; in fact, it's able to scale horizontally on commercial off-the-shelf...

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Authors (1)

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati – commonly known as Fale – is an EMEA associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, a public speaker, an author, and an open source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 15 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for various organizations, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Fale has written Learning Ansible 2.7, Learning Ansible 2, and OpenStack Cloud Security, and has been part of the review process of multiple books.

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