"Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization."
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Federico Garcia Lorca
Deploying an OpenStack environment based on the profiled design, as shown in the previous chapter, is not simple. Although we created our design by taking care of several aspects related to scalability and performance, we still have to make it real. If you are still looking at OpenStack as a single block system, you should take a step back and recheck what was explained in Chapter 1, Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration. Furthermore, in the introductory section of this book, we covered the role of OpenStack in the next generation of data centers. A large-scale infrastructure used by cloud providers with a few thousand servers needs a very different approach to setup.
In our case, deploying...