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OpenStack Cloud Security

You're reading from   OpenStack Cloud Security Your OpenStack cloud storage contains all your vital computing resources and potentially sensitive data – secure it with this essential OpenStack tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782170983
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. First Things First – Creating a Safe Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. OpenStack Security Challenges 3. Securing OpenStack Networking 4. Securing OpenStack Communications and Its API 5. Securing the OpenStack Identification and Authentication System and Its Dashboard 6. Securing OpenStack Storage 7. Securing the Hypervisor Index

Criteria for choosing a hypervisor


There are multiple factors that must be considered when you choose which hypervisor to use. The majority of these criteria have security issues, and as you'll see, there is no universal answer that will fit any environment, but each single company will have to find the best tool for its needs. Also, all these hypervisors have an amazing speed of evolution, so hypervisors that are not ready for production now could be ready for production in a few months.

Team expertise

I believe that a very important part of the hypervisor choice has to be based on your staff expertise. There are cases where it makes sense to deploy a hypervisor where none of your staff has any kind of expertise, and this could also be your situation. The downside of this is that your staff will need to study the hypervisor well before it can go into a production environment.

I would say that this could be considered the economical part of the decision; in fact, it affects mainly that part...

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