OpenStack is the open source software for building public and private clouds, and privately hosted software-defined infrastructure services. It is a global open source success and is developed and supported by thousands of people around the globe and backed by 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. This book covers an installation of OpenStack using Ansible, into your datacenters, in addition to providing steps for running under so that you can quickly gain the knowledge needed to install and operate OpenStack today. This book has been written by four principal level OpenStack engineers and architects from Rackspace, and it covers a wide range of topics that help you install and configure your OpenStack environments. This book will guide you in the following things:
- How to install and configure all of the core components of OpenStack using OpenStack-Ansible
- How to master the complete private cloud stack, from scaling out compute resources to managing object storage services for highly redundant, highly available storage
- Examples of using Heat and Ansible to orchestrate workloads running on OpenStack
- 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
This book 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.
This book is aimed at system administrators and technical architects moving from a virtualized environment to cloud environments who are familiar with cloud computing platforms. Knowledge of virtualization and managing Linux environments is expected. Prior knowledge or experience of OpenStack is not required, although beneficial.