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Over 100 recipes to successfully set up and manage your OpenStack cloud environments with complete coverage of Nova, Swift, Keystone, Glance, and Horizon
- Learn how to install and configure all the core components of OpenStack to run an environment that can be managed and operated just like AWS or Rackspace
- Master the complete private cloud stack from scaling out compute resources to managing swift services for highly redundant, highly available storage
- Practical, real world examples of each service are built upon in each chapter allowing you to progress with the confidence that they will work in your own environments
In Detail
OpenStack is an open Source cloud operating stack born from Rackspace and NASA which is now a global success, developed and supported by scores of people around the globe and backed by some of the leading players in the cloud space today.
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook will show you exactly how to install the components that are required to make up a private cloud environment. You will learn how to set up an environment that you manage, just as you would do with AWS or Rackspace.
The Cookbook starts by configuring Nova (Compute) and Swift (Storage) in a safe, virtual environment that builds on through the book, to provisioning and managing OpenStack in the Datacenter.
From Installing Nova in a Virtual Environment to installing OpenStack in the Datacenter, from understanding logging to securing your OpenStack environment, whatever level of experience or interest you have with OpenStack there are recipes that guide you through the journey. Installation steps cover Compute, Swift, Keystone, Nova Volumes, Glance and Horizon.
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook gives you clear step-by-step instructions to installing and running your own private cloud successfully. It is full of practical and applicable recipes that enable you to use the latest capabilities of OpenStack and implement them.
What you will learn from this book
- Understand, install and configure Nova, OpenStacks Cloud Compute resource
- Learn how to install Swift, how it operateswith practical recipes to troubleshooting and maintaining OpenStacks Object Storage service
- Configure Keystone, OpenStacks Identity Service which underpins the authentication of all OpenStack services
- Manage cloud computing images using the OpenStack Image Service, Glance
- Learn how to create custom Windows and Linux images for use in your private cloud environment
- Configure and install Horizon, the OpenStack Dashboard service for managing your cloud environment
- Learn how to secure your private cloud and the instances running on them
- Learn how to troubleshoot, monitor and deploy OpenStack environments beyond test environments and into real-world datacenters
Approach
A Cookbook full of practical and applicable recipes that will enable you to use the full capabilities of OpenStack like never before.
Who this book is written for
This book is aimed at system administrators and technical architects moving from a virtualized environment to cloud environments with familiarity of cloud computing platforms. Knowledge of virtualization and managing linux environments is expected.
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Kevin Jackson is married, with three children. He is an experienced IT professional working with small businesses and online enterprises. He has extensive experience with various flavors of Linux and Unix. He specializes in web and cloud infrastructure technologies for Trader Media Group.
I'd like to thank my wife, Charlene, and the rest of my family for their time, patience, and encouragement throughout the book.
I'd also like to extend my thanks to the OpenStack community, which has helped a great deal during my journey with OpenStack. The talent and support is phenomenal. Without the OpenStack community, there would be no OpenStack.
A specific mention goes to all those who have made this book possible. Your comments, guidance, and motivation have made writing this book an enjoyable experience.
Thierry Carrez is an open source project management expert and has been working on OpenStack since 2010, as the project's Release Manager, sponsored by Rackspace.
An Ubuntu Core developer and Debian maintainer, he was previously the Technical Lead for Ubuntu Server edition at Canonical and an Operational Manager for the Gentoo Linux Security Team. He has also worked as an IT Manager for small and large companies.
Atul Kumar Jha has been an ardent Linux enthusiast and free software evangelist for more than eight years. He holds an engineering degree in IT and has been working for over four years on different job roles. He also happens to be one of the co-founders of the free software event series called mukt.in.
He currently works as an Evangelist for CSS Corp. Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India, where most of his work involves free/open software technologies and cloud platforms.
He's been involved with OpenStack since the Bexar release and has been contributing to the project since then. Most of his contributions have been around documentation, bug reporting, and helping folks on IRC.
He can be seen lurking on Freenode, under the #ubuntu-server or #openstack channels, using the handle koolhead17. More information about him can be found at http://www.atuljha.com.
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OpenStack is an open source software for building public and private clouds, born from Rackspace and NASA. It is now a global success and is developed and supported by scores of people around the globe and backed by some of the leading players in the cloud space today. This book is specifically designed to quickly help you get up to speed with OpenStack and give you the confidence and understanding to roll it out into your own datacenters. From test installations of OpenStack running under VirtualBox to recipes that help you move out to production environments, this book covers a wide range of topics that help you install and configure a private cloud. This book will show you:
- How to install and configure all the core components of OpenStack to run an environment that can be managed and operated just like AWS, HP Cloud Services, and Rackspace
- How to master the complete private cloud stack, from scaling out Compute resources to managing object storage services for highly redundant, highly available storage
- Practical, real-world examples of each service built upon in each chapter, allowing you to progress with the confidence that they will work in your own environments
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook gives you clear, step-by-step instructions to install and run your own private cloud successfully. It is full of practical and applicable recipes that enable you to use the latest capabilities of OpenStack and implement them.
, Starting OpenStack Compute , teaches you how to set up and use OpenStack Compute running within a VirtualBox environment.
, Administering OpenStack Compute , teaches you how to manage user accounts and security groups as well as how to deal with cloud images to run in an OpenStack environment.
, Keystone OpenStack Identity Service , takes you through installation and configuration of Keystone, which underpins all of the other OpenStack services.
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