Jackson - OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook

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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Preface

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.

What this book covers

, 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.