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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

Standards used in Heat

The OpenStack Heat component complies to the following two standards:

  • Amazon CloudFormation
  • TOSCA

Amazon CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is an orchestration service introduced by Amazon, which enables users to define the cloud resources in a file called template. These resources are provisioned and configured by the provisioning engine automatically. All the dependencies are automatically solved by the provisioning engine itself.

The following are a few features offered by CloudFormation:

Simplified infrastructure management

A CloudFormation template simplifies infrastructure management by defining all the resources and their relationships into a single template file, and then building a stack using this template file. It reduces the time and effort required to install and then configure each service manually. This enables both the automated and unattended installation of services.

A quick replication of services

It is possible to configure services in a highly available...

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