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OpenStack Orchestration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551651
Length 150 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adnan Ahmed Siddiqui Adnan Ahmed Siddiqui
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the Orchestration Service for OpenStack FREE CHAPTER 2. The OpenStack Architecture 3. Stack Group of Connected Cloud Resources 4. Installation and Configuration of the Orchestration Service 5. Working with Heat 6. Managing Heat 7. Troubleshooting Heat Index

Heat components

The following are the main components for the Heat orchestration framework:

  • The Heat CLI
  • heat-api
  • heat-api-cfn
  • heat-engine
  • Heat Orchestration Template (HOT)

The Heat CLI

The Heat CLI is the command-line tool for Heat. It interacts with heat-api to run AWS CloudFormation commands; or otherwise, it can directly run REST API commands for Heat.

heat-api

The heat-api component offers a REST API, which is OpenStack native. To process the user requests, this API forwards those requests to the Heat engine using the RPC.

heat-api-cfn

The heat-api-cfn module offers another API that is compatible with AWS CloudFormation. It also processes queries after forwarding them to heat-engine over RPC.

heat-engine

The heat-engine is the core component of the Orchestration service for OpenStack. It is responsible for launching new services and instances according to the given templates.

Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) specification

Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) is a new template format developed as an...

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