Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Inflating the OpenStack Setup; Revisiting the OpenStack ecosystem; Grasping a first layout; Postulating the OpenStack setup; Treating OpenStack as code; Growing the OpenStack infrastructure; Deploying OpenStack; Ansible in a nutshell; Testing the OpenStack environment; Prerequisites for the test environment; Setting up the Ansible environment; Running the OSA installation; Production OpenStack environment; Summary; Chapter 2: Massively Scaling Computing Power
Decomposing the compute powerEmpowering the compute service; Varying the compute flavor; Meeting Docker; Joining Docker; Meeting Xen; Joining Xen; Segregating the compute resources; Reasoning for infrastructure segregation; Defining regions; Defining AZ; Defining host aggregate; Defining cells; Reasoning for workload segregation; Filtering the compute workload; Weighting the compute power; Stacking or spreading; Weighing in action; Summary; Chapter 3: Enlarging the OpenStack Storage Capabilities; Varying the block storage backends; Managing block storage â#x80;#x93; Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
Managing block storage â#x80;#x93; Network File System (NFS)Managing block storage â#x80;#x93; Ceph RADOS Block Device (RBD); Scheduling and filtering; Hybrid storage scheduling; Navigating the storage backup alternatives; Ceph as backup; Swift as backup; Exploring Manila â#x80;#x93; shared file service; Configuring the shared file service; Configuring block storage for the Manila backend; Configuring CephFS for the Manila backend; Summary; Chapter 4: Harnessing the Power of the OpenStack Network Service; Neutron plugins reference; Driving the sole plugin â#x80;#x93; ML2 under the hood
Extending ML2 â#x80;#x93; customizing your own pluginMaximizing network availability; Neutron HA â#x80;#x93; DVR; Configuring DVR; Neutron HA â#x80;#x93; VRRP; The era of network programming; Orchestrating the network function virtualization (NFV); Summary; Chapter 5: Containerizing in OpenStack; Why containers?; The natural evolution of containers; Game changing â#x80;#x93; microservices; Building the ship; Containers in OpenStack; Docker Swarm in OpenStack; Example â#x80;#x93; NGINX web server; Kubernetes in OpenStack; Example â#x80;#x93; application server; Mesos in OpenStack; Example â#x80;#x93; a Python-based web server; Summary
Chapter 6: Managing Big Data in OpenStackBig data in OpenStack; Rolling OpenStack Sahara service; Deploying the Hadoop cluster; Executing jobs; Summary; Chapter 7: Evolving Self-Cloud Ready Applications in OpenStack; The evolvement of Murano; The Murano ecosystem; Integrating Murano in OpenStack; Deploying a self-contained application; Summary; Chapter 8: Extending the Applications Catalog Service; Murano application under the hood; Developing application publisher perspective; Deploying application consumer perspective; Summary; Chapter 9: Consolidating the OpenStack Authentication
Summary
OpenStack is a very popular cloud computing platform that has enabled several organizations during the last few years to successfully implement their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. This book will guide you through new features of the latest OpenStack releases and how to bring them into production straightaway in an agile way
