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Extending OpenStack

You're reading from   Extending OpenStack Leverage extended OpenStack projects to implement containerization, deployment, and architecting robust cloud solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465535
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Omar Khedher Omar Khedher
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Preface 1. Inflating the OpenStack Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Massively Scaling Computing Power 3. Enlarging the OpenStack Storage Capabilities 4. Harnessing the Power of the OpenStack Network Service 5. Containerizing in OpenStack 6. Managing Big Data in OpenStack 7. Evolving Self-Cloud Ready Applications in OpenStack 8. Extending the Applications Catalog Service 9. Consolidating the OpenStack Authentication 10. Boosting the Extended Cloud Universe 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why containers?

The concept of containerization technology has existed for a few years. With Unix kernel maturity, many companies have started kicking off new paths toward the world of containers. Several projects have been created around the concept of containerization technology with slightly different architectures and purposes. Unix chroot was the earliest invention of a container implementation in Unix kernel. Based on the same concept, other projects such as FreeBSD jails, Linux-VServer, Solaris Containers, Linux containers, and OpenVZ, to name few, have emerged as new ways to adopt containers shifting through the infrastructure to a different level of flexibility.

As a result, we can observe in today's industry a worldwide interest in adopting the container concept. The necessity to switch to a containerized environment has been depicted from the years of experiencing...

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