Summary

In this book, we've walked through the major areas of focus in the emerging practice of a Cloud Architect as it pertains to OpenStack. We've shown you some techniques and recommendations to enable you to work with company stakeholders and provide architectural leadership in order to create a holistic design for OpenStack in an enterprise. Successfully designing, deploying, and operating OpenStack clouds requires a wide breadth of knowledge in the fields of compute, network, storage, and software design. It also takes a deep understanding of a company's strategic mission, processes, and success criteria for implementing a private cloud. Successful Cloud Architects leverage the knowledge and practice of subject matter experts in deep technical areas in conjunction with their own knowledge when designing OpenStack clouds. This book was written to provide a framework that an Architect could use to create a successful OpenStack deployment in concert with the rest of an...