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Mastering OpenStack

You're reading from   Mastering OpenStack Design, deploy, and manage clouds in mid to large IT infrastructures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463982
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Chandan Dutta Chandan Dutta
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Omar Khedher Omar Khedher
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Preface 1. Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying OpenStack - The DevOps Way 3. OpenStack Cluster – The Cloud Controller and Common Services 4. OpenStack Compute - Choice of Hypervisor and Node Segregation 5. OpenStack Storage - Block, Object, and File Share 6. OpenStack Networking - Choice of Connectivity Types and Networking Services 7. Advanced Networking - A Look at SDN and NFV 8. Operating the OpenStack Infrastructure - The User Perspective 9. OpenStack HA and Failover 10. Monitoring and Troubleshooting - Running a Healthy OpenStack Cluster 11. Keeping Track of Logs - ELK and OpenStack 12. OpenStack Benchmarking and Performance Tuning - Maintaining Cloud Performance

Two eyes are better than one eye

OpenStack produces tons of log files in a real production environment. It becomes harder for a cloud operating team to analyze and parse them by extracting data in each file using a combination of tail, grep, and perl tools. The more hosts you build, the more logs you have to manage. Growing a few paces should be companioned by a serious trace keeper. To overcome such a challenge, your log environment must evolve to become centralized. A good option can be by starting flowing logs in a dedicated rsyslog server. You may put in so much data and your log server start starving for larger storage capacity. Furthermore, archiving the former data will not be handy when you need to extract information for a particular context. Additionally, correlating logs data having different format (taking into consideration RabbitMQ and MySQL logs) with generated events might be even impossible. So...

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