OpenStack Cluster – The Cloud Controller and Common Services

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- African proverb

Now that you have good knowledge of the approaches taken to deploy a large OpenStack infrastructure in an automated way, it is time to dive deeper and cover more specific conceptual designs within OpenStack.

In a large infrastructure, especially if you are looking to keep all your services up
and running, it is essential that you ensure the OpenStack infrastructure is reliable and guarantees business continuity.

We already discussed several design aspects and highlighted some best practices of scalable architecture models within OpenStack in Chapter 1, Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration.

Soon after, we discovered the efficiency of automation...