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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

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James Denton is a Principal Architect at Rackspace with over 15 years of experience in systems administration and networking. He has a bachelor's degree in Business Management with a focus on Computer Information Systems from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He is currently focused on OpenStack operations and support within the Rackspace Private Cloud team. James is the author of the Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), first and second editions, as well as OpenStack Networking Essentials, both by Packt Publishing.
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Egle Sigler is an OpenStack Foundation board member and a principal architect in the Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of San Antonio, Texas. Egle holds an MS degree in computer science. She started her career as a software developer and still has a soft spot for all the people who write, test, and deploy code, since she has had the chance to do all of these tasks throughout her career. Egle dreams about a day when writing, testing, and deploying code will be a seamless and easy process—bug and frustration free for all. Egle believes that knowledge should be shared and has tried to do this by writing this book, giving talks and workshops at conferences, and blogging.
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Cody Bunch is a principal architect in the Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of San Antonio, Texas. Cody has been working with OpenStack since early 2012, coauthored the second edition of this book, and also coauthored OpenStack Security Guide, OpenStack Foundation. Cody has extensive experience with virtualized and cloud environments in variously sized enterprises and hosting environments.
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Kevin Jackson is married and has three children. He is an IT professional with over 20 years of experience, working with businesses and enterprises of all sizes at Rackspace, as an OpenStack and private cloud specialist. Kevin has been working with OpenStack since the fist release, and he has extensive experience of various flavors of Linux, Unix, and hosting environments. Kevin authored the fist edition of this book, and coauthored the second and third editions. Kevin also coauthored OpenStack Architecture Design Guide, OpenStack Foundation, during a 5-day book sprint in California. He also regularly speaks at OpenStack community events.
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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition
Contributors
Preface
Another Book You May Enjoy
1. Installing OpenStack with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 2. The OpenStack Client 3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service 4. Neutron – OpenStack Networking 5. Nova – OpenStack Compute 6. Glance – OpenStack Image Service 7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage 8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage 9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible 10. Using OpenStack Dashboard Index

Introduction – using OpenStack

OpenStack can be interacted with in a number of ways – from using the Horizon (the OpenStack control panel) web interface to, the power of the command line to using third -party software, all of which are transparently integrated with OpenStack. In this chapter, we will introduce the OpenStack Command-Line Interface (CLI) and see how to configure it for use with your installation of OpenStack. The OpenStack command-line tools, like the vast majority of OpenStack, are written in Python. This means that there is a direct dependency on Python being available on the computer that will be running the clients.

When we interact with OpenStack, we are technically making REST API calls to the services that run the Service APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). A REST API defines a set of functions that developers can perform requests and receive responses via HTTP protocol such as GET and POST. The OpenStack command-line clients translate your intuitive commands...

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