OpenStack Cloud Application Development

by Scott Adkins, John Belamaric, Vincent Giersch

Leverage the power of OpenStack to develop scalable applications with no vendor lock-in OpenStack Cloud Application Development is a fast-paced, professional book for OpenStack developers, delivering comprehensive guidance without wasting time on development fundamentals. Written by experts in the OpenStack community from Infoblox, Gigaspaces, GoDaddy, and Comcast, this book shows you how to work effectively and efficiently within the OpenStack platform to develop large, scalable applications without worrying about underlying hardware. Follow along with an OpenStack build that illustrates how and where each technology comes into play, as you learn expert tips and best practices that make your product stronger. Coverage includes OpenStack service primitives, networking within the OpenStack Ecosystem, deployment of Virtualized Network Functions for Enterprises, containers, data protection, and much more. If you need to get on board quickly, this professional book is your ideal roadmap to OpenStack development. OpenStack is supported by dozens of major technology companies, compatible with Amazon Web Services, and can be used alongside or on top of VMWare vSphere and other similar technologies. It frees developers from the confines of hardware and vendor lock-in while providing a reliable, fast, and easy platform for developing scalable cloud applications. OpenStack Cloud Application Development is an expert-led guide to getting the most out of OpenStack, designed specifically for the professional developer.

168 pages, Paperback

First published December 2, 2015

Reviews

[Balhau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well this is a very interesting and broad book. Personally I decided to read this book because in my current job we are having a infrastructure migration from one commercial virtual infrastructure into one based into OpenStack. I'm not a DevOp guy so the knowledge here will be not my day to day work, however as a developer I feel the need to understand the overall architecture and the inner working of this software ecosystem, to understand to which extent this will impact with my work and the projects I'm involved with. I must confess that I was not expecting such amount of interesting stuff. Bear in mind that this book don't follow a "how to" style we saw in many technical books. Instead of a tutorial based approach the authors gave a systematic and complete approach to the needs, the features and trade offs involved with virtualization from the ground up. All the layers of cloud computing are analyzed, put in context and all lots of pros and cons were drawn. The team that write the book is very knowledgeable as well as pragmatic. I recommend this book to all developers and devops that work in large companies and need to tackle the complexities of cloud based computing. The book is divided essentially in two parts. The first deals with fundamentals of cloud computing, virtualization and the set o software that we call OpenStack. In the second part of the book the authors create a OpenStack based three tier application and apply the principles and technologies to each tier to max out scalability fault-tolerance, high availability and, where possible, elasticity by auto scale up and down of server instances. Again I fully recommend this read.