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OpenStack Essentials

OpenStack Essentials

By : Dan Radez
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OpenStack Essentials

OpenStack Essentials

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By: Dan Radez
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Overview of this book

If you need to get started with OpenStack or want to learn more, then this book is your perfect companion. If you're comfortable with the Linux command line, you'll gain confidence in using OpenStack.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Architecture and Component Overview
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1. Architecture and Component Overview
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OpenStack architecture
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Dashboard
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Keystone
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Glance
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Neutron
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Nova
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Cinder
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Swift
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Ceilometer
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Heat
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Summary
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2. RDO Installation
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2. RDO Installation
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Installing RDO using Packstack
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Summary
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3. Identity Management
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3. Identity Management
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Services and endpoints
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Interacting with Keystone in the dashboard
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Endpoints in the dashboard
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Summary
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4. Image Management
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4. Image Management
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Glance as a registry of images
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Using the web interface
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Building an image
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Summary
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5. Network Management
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5. Network Management
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Networking and Neutron
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Open vSwitch configuration
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Creating a network
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Web interface management
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External network access
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Web interface external network setup
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6. Instance Management
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6. Instance Management
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Managing flavors
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Managing key pairs
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Launching an instance
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Managing floating IP addresses
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Managing security groups
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Communicating with the instance
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Launching an instance using the web interface
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7. Block Storage
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7. Block Storage
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Use case
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Creating and using block storage
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Attaching the block storage to an instance
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Managing Cinder volumes in the web interface
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Backing storage
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8. Object Storage
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8. Object Storage
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Use case
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Architecture of a Swift cluster
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Creating and using object storage
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Object file management in the web interface
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Using object storage on an instance
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Ring files
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9. Telemetry
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9. Telemetry
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Understanding the data store
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Definitions of Ceilometer's configuration terms
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Graphing the data
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10. Orchestration
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10. Orchestration
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About orchestration
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Writing templates
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Launching a stack
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Autoscaling instances with Heat
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LBaaS setup
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Web interface
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11. Scaling Horizontally
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11. Scaling Horizontally
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Scaling compute nodes
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Installing more control and networking
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Scaling control and network services
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Load-balancing keystone
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Glance load balancing
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Scaling other services
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High availability
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Highly available database and message bus
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12. Monitoring
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12. Monitoring
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Monitoring defined
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Installing Nagios
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Monitoring methods
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Non-OpenStack service checks
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Monitoring control services
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Monitoring network services
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Monitoring compute services
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13. Troubleshooting
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13. Troubleshooting
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The debug command line option
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Tail the server logs
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Troubleshooting Keystone and authentication
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Troubleshooting Glance image management
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Troubleshooting Neutron networking
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Troubleshooting Nova launching instances
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Troubleshooting post-boot metadata
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Troubleshooting console access
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Troubleshooting Cinder block storage
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Troubleshooting Swift object storage
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Troubleshooting Ceilometer Telemetry
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Troubleshooting Heat orchestration
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Getting more help
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Index

Getting more help

It is not possible to foresee every error or troubleshooting scenario that could happen in an OpenStack installation. If you need further help in debugging and installation, start with http://ask.openstack.org. Each of the projects that we have covered in this book also has a community of developers that actively work on it. You can connect with them through mailing lists, forums, IRC channels, and bug trackers. To find contact information for each of these communication channels, start with http://www.openstack.org. If you do not find what you are looking for there, then search the Internet to get further information for each of the projects.

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