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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 and DevStack

DevStack provides a set of scripts for automated installation of OpenStack on Ubuntu as well as Fedora Linux. It is a tool to help OpenStack developers to quickly set up an OpenStack environment using scripts. These scripts automatically download or clone the required packages and repositories from the OpenStack website that are necessary for setting up an OpenStack cloud.

One drawback with this approach is that the environment is not persistent across server reboots. There are scripts such as rejoin-stack that need to be run to recreate the environment after a server has been rebooted.

Therefore, DevStack is not recommended for a production install. However, it can only be used for testing and development purpose, where an OpenStack environment is created and destroyed several times. When OpenStack is required in a purely development environment, other methods of installation can be used.

DevStack can also be configured for enabling and using Heat services. This can be...

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