Learning OpenStack

by Alok Shrivastwa

Set up and maintain your own cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) using OpenStack This book is targeted at all aspiring administrators, architects, or students who want to build cloud environments using Openstack. Knowledge of IaaS or cloud computing is recommended. OpenStack is a free and open source cloud computing platform that is rapidly gaining popularity in Enterprise data centres. It is a scalable operating system and is used to build private and public clouds. It is imperative for all the aspiring cloud administrators to possess OpenStack skills if they want to succeed in the cloud-led IT infrastructure space. This book will help you gain a clearer understanding of OpenStack's components and their interaction with each other to build a cloud environment. You will learn to deploy a self-service based cloud using just four virtual machines and standard networking. You begin with an introduction on the basics of cloud computing. This is followed by a brief look into the need for authentication and authorization, the different aspects of dashboards, cloud computing fabric controllers, along with “Networking as a Service” and “Software Defined Networking.” Then, you will focus on installing, configuring, and troubleshooting different architectures such as Keystone, Horizon, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, and Glance. Furthermore, you will see how all of the OpenStack components come together in providing IaaS to users. Finally, you will take your OpenStack cloud to the next level by integrating it with other IT ecosystem elements before automation. By the end of this book, you will be proficient with the fundamentals and application of OpenStack. This is a practical step-by-step guide comprising of installation prerequisites and basic troubleshooting instructions to help you build an error-free OpenStack cloud easily.

272 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2015

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the book did a good job. it could have been better in explaining and walking through progressive implementations - as the PacktPub book Learning RabbitMQ did - and also in proofreading it before publishing (which seems to be a very common error for PacktPub's books which I have read - get some editors, guys!), but all in all I do believe it is a reasonably good introduction to basic core OpenStack bits and pieces.