The essence of open source and a community-driven development approach results in a lot of new features getting added to the OpenStack project with each release. When working with such a complex project, it is certain that you will face problems, bugs, errors, issues, and plain old trouble. By now, you will have learned about how to approach these issues, along with knowledge of OpenStack troubleshooting techniques and being able to trace the issues in the respective log files.

In the next chapter, we will walk through an overview of the optional services available in OpenStack.