Summary
Yes! You just set up your OpenStack cloud in an Active-Active design. The flexibility and reliability you just gained solves for most mainstream HA requirements. Have fun jumping between the regions and separating out your application resources within one or two clicks. Before concluding this chapter, let's take a moment to recap this chapter. We talked through the benefits that OpenStack offers out of the box to handle high-availability requirements. Then, we transitioned to some possible reasons you would want to use Active-Active cloud regions. Next, we walked through the steps of how to set up the Active-Active cloud regions. Finally, we developed Ansible playbooks and roles to automate setting up the Admin region.
The next chapter happens to also be something that came in as a customer demand for a pretty large OpenStack cloud. There is no cloud operator out there who does not want to know or have a complete inventory of their cloud. Tracking resources, auditing users,...