Mastering OpenStack, 2/e

Discover your complete guide to designing, deploying, and managing OpenStack-based clouds in mid-to-large IT infrastructures with best practices, expert understanding, and more

About This Book

• Design and deploy an OpenStack-based cloud in your mid-to-large IT infrastructure using automation tools and best practices
• Keep yourself up-to-date with valuable insights into OpenStack components and new services in the latest OpenStack release
• Discover how the new features in the latest OpenStack release can help your enterprise and infrastructure

Who This Book Is For

This book is for system administrators, cloud engineers, and system architects who would like to deploy an OpenStack-based cloud in a mid-to-large IT infrastructure. This book requires a moderate level of system administration and familiarity with cloud concepts.

What You Will Learn

• Explore the main architecture design of OpenStack components and core-by-core services, and how they work together
• Design different high availability scenarios and plan for a no-single-point-of-failure environment
• Set up a multinode environment in production using orchestration tools
• Boost OpenStack's performance with advanced configuration
• Delve into various hypervisors and container technology supported by OpenStack
• Get familiar with deployment methods and discover use cases in a real production environment
• Adopt the DevOps style of automation while deploying and operating in an OpenStack environment
• Monitor the cloud infrastructure and make decisions on maintenance and performance improvement

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