Kicking Off the OpenStack Setup – The Right Way (DevSecOps)

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

The OpenStack ecosystem, as discussed in the previous chapter, presents a vast array of design patterns, coupled with choices of hardware and tools to deploy a robust private cloud setup. With the Antelope release, there have been no significant changes to the core architecture system, but a few parts have been updated, with some additions and features. But that comes with the cost of increased complexity when it comes to the deployment and operation stages. The good news is that the OpenStack community, since its earliest releases, has created different approaches to avoid an arduous OpenStack operation experience. The key mechanism for this task is automation. There is, without a doubt, a high risk of getting into endless troubleshooting...