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OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
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Table of Contents
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Why subscribe?
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. RDO Installation
OpenStack architecture
Dashboard
Keystone
Glance
Neutron
Nova
Cinder
Swift
Ceilometer
Heat
OpenStack installation
Installing RDO using Packstack
Installing RDO using Triple-O
Connecting to your Overcloud
Summary
2. Identity Management
Services and endpoints
Hierarchy of users, projects, and roles
Creating a user
Creating a project
Granting a role
Logging in with the new user
Interacting with Keystone in the dashboard
Endpoints in the dashboard
Summary
3. Image Management
Glance as a registry of images
Downloading and registering an image
Using the web interface
Building an image
Summary
4. 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
5. Instance Management
Managing flavors
Managing key pairs
Launching an instance
Managing floating IP addresses
Managing security groups
Communicating with the instance
Launching an instance using the web interface
Summary
6. 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
Ceph setup
GlusterFS setup
Summary
7. Object Storage
Use case
Architecture of a Swift cluster
Creating and using object storage
Object file management in the web interface
Using object storage on an instance
Ring files
Creating ring files
Summary
8. Telemetry
Understanding the data store
Definitions of Ceilometer's configuration terms
Pipelines
Meters
Samples
Statistics
Alarms
Graphing the data
Summary
9. Orchestration
About orchestration
Writing templates
The AWS CloudFormation format
The Heat Orchestration Template format
Launching a stack
Autoscaling instances with Heat
LBaaS setup
Web interface
Summary
10. Docker
Containers
OpenStack integration
Nova compute configuration
Glance configuration
Importing a Docker image to Glance
Launching a Docker instance
Summary
11. Scaling Horizontally
Scaling compute nodes
Installing more control nodes
Load-balancing control services
High availability
Highly available database and message bus
Summary
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
13. Troubleshooting
The OpenStack debug command-line option
Tailing the server logs
Troubleshooting Keystone and authentication
Troubleshooting Glance image management
Troubleshooting Neutron networking
Troubleshooting Nova launching instances
Troubleshooting post-boot metadata
Troubleshooting console access
Troubleshooting Cinder block storage
Troubleshooting Swift object storage
Troubleshooting Ceilometer Telemetry
Troubleshooting Heat orchestration
Getting more help
Summary
Index
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OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
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Author
Dan Radez
Reviewer
Vinoth Kumar Selvaraj
Commissioning Editor
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Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV.
Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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Vinoth Kumar Selvaraj works as a DevOps engineer at CD Cloudenablers Pvt Ltd, a cloud technology startup based in Chennai, India.
He has also reviewed Openstack Cloud Security. Learning OpenStack High Availability, and Learning OpenStack (Video), all by Packt Publishing.
In his spare time, Vinoth blogs about OpenStack at his website, http://www.hellovinoth.com, and shares his thoughts via his Twitter handle, @vinoth6664.
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