OpenStack essentials
Subtitle: demystify the cloud by building your own private OpenStack cloud
By: Dan Radez
Series: Community experience distilled; Community experience distilled
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Birmingham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781783987085; 9781783987092
Subjects: Cloud computing; Computing platforms; Open source software
Other titles: Demystify the cloud by building your own private OpenStack cloud
Description: If you need to get started with OpenStack or want to learn more, then this book is your perfect companion. If you're comfortable with the Linux command line, you'll gain confidence in using OpenStack.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Architecture and Component Overview; OpenStack architecture; Dashboard; Keystone; Glance; Neutron; Nova; Cinder; Swift; Ceilometer; Heat; Summary; Chapter 2: RDO Installation; Installing RDO using Packstack; Preparing nodes for installation; Installing Packstack and generating an answer file; Summary; Chapter 3: Identity Management; Services and endpoints; Hierarchy of users, tenants, and roles; Creating a user; Creating a tenant; Granting a role.; title: Logging in with the new userInteracting with Keystone in the dashboard; Endpoints in the dashboard; Summary; Chapter 4: Image Management; Glance as a registry of images; Downloading and registering an image; Using the web interface; Building an image; Summary; Chapter 5: Network Management; Networking and Neutron; Network fabric; Open vSwitch configuration; VLAN; GRE tunnels; VXLAN tunnels; Creating a network; Web interface management; External network access; Preparing a network; Creating an external network; Web interface external network setup; Summary; Chapter 6: Instance Management.; title: Managing flavorsManaging key pairs; Launching an instance; Managing floating IP addresses; Managing security groups; Communicating with the instance; Launching an instance using the web interface; Summary; Chapter 7: Block Storage; Use case; Creating and using block storage; Attaching the block storage to an instance; Managing Cinder volumes in the web interface; Backing storage; Cinder types; GlusterFS setup; Summary; Chapter 8: Object Storage; Use case; Architecture of a Swift cluster; Creating and using object storage; Object file management in the web interface.; title: Using object storage on an instanceRing files; Creating ring files; Summary; Chapter 9: Telemetry; Understanding the data store; Definitions of Ceilometer's configuration terms; Pipelines; Meters; Samples; Statistics; Alarms; Graphing the data; Summary; Chapter 10: Orchestration; About orchestration; Writing templates; The AWS CloudFormation format; The Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) format; Launching a stack; Autoscaling instances with Heat; LBaaS setup; Web interface; Summary; Chapter 11: Scaling Horizontally; Scaling compute nodes; Installing more control and networking.; title: Scaling control and network servicesLoad-balancing keystone; Additional Keystone tuning; Glance load balancing; Scaling other services; High availability; Highly available database and message bus; Summary; Chapter 12: Monitoring; Monitoring defined; Installing Nagios; Adding Nagios host checks; Nagios commands; Monitoring methods; Non-OpenStack service checks; Monitoring control services; Monitoring network services; Monitoring compute services; Summary; Chapter 13: Troubleshooting; The debug command line option; Tail the server logs; Troubleshooting Keystone and authentication.