Our journey of mastering the OpenStack cloud system has come to an end. In the course of this book, you learned how to plan and design the general OpenStack architecture, deploy and manage your cloud using automation tools, such as Chef (covering more incubated projects for storage), as well as decide and use a network in OpenStack. You were also informed about several design patterns for clustering, high availability, and scalability in OpenStack. Your OpenStack production day was accompanied by an exploration of ways to monitor and collect logging data for faster troubleshooting tasks. You should notice how rich and welcoming such a cloud platform is for new cloud-based open source solutions.

In this chapter, we highlighted real-world scenarios for performance enhancement in OpenStack database, queuing message system and OpenStack services. Now you should also be able to use Rally and perform scenario benchmarking based on more advanced workflows. You may have noticed how Rally...