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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782170983
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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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