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You're reading from Containers in OpenStack Leverage OpenStack services to make the most of Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788394383

Length 176 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Pradeep Kumar Singh

Madhuri Kumari

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Working with Containers FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Container Orchestration Engines

3. OpenStack Architecture

4. Containerization in OpenStack

5. Magnum – COE Management in OpenStack

6. Zun – Container Management in OpenStack

7. Kuryr – Container Plugin for OpenStack Networking

8. Murano – Containerized Application Deployment on OpenStack

9. Kolla – Containerized Deployment of OpenStack

10. Best Practices for Containers and OpenStack

Magnum introduction

Magnum is an OpenStack service that was created in 2014 by the OpenStack containers team to enable a Container Orchestration Engine (COE) offering the ability to deploy and manage containers as first-class resources in OpenStack.

Currently, Magnum supports Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, and Docker Swarm COEs. Magnum uses Heat to do the orchestration of these COEs on VMs or bare metals provisioned by OpenStack. It uses OS images that contain the required tools to run containers. Magnum offers KeyStone compatible APIs and a complete multi-tenant solution for managing your COEs on top of an OpenStack cluster.

A Magnum cluster is a set of various resources provided by different OpenStack services. It consists of a group of VMs provisioned by Nova, networks connecting these VMs created by Neutron, volumes attached to VMs created by Cinder, and so on. A Magnum cluster...

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Authors (2)

Kumari

Madhuri Kumari is an OpenStack developer. She has expertise in the domains of cloud computing, containers, and virtualization. She has been working on OpenStack since December 2014 and is a core reviewer for two OpenStack projects, Magnum and Zun. Besides this, she has also worked on the Ironic, Swift, Murano, and Valence. She is an active speaker at OpenStack summits, LinuxCon, and local meetups. She was also nominated for the RedHat Women in Open Source Award, 2017.

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Kumar Singh

Pradeep Kumar Singh is an OpenStack developer. He has expertise in the domains of containers, storage, and web application development. Pradeep is a core reviewer for OpenStack Zun. Pradeep also loves machine learning and the infrastructure part of it. In his free time, he plays with his Raspberry Pi 3 clusters, and also loves to write code in different programming languages.

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