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OpenStack for Architects

By : Ben Silverman, Michael Solberg

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OpenStack for Architects

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By: Ben Silverman, Michael Solberg

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Overview of this book

Over the past six years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, including industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders, such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE, has led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Due to its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill set to design and implement it. OpenStack for Architects leads you through the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. This book will address the recent changes made in the latest OpenStack release i.e Queens, and will also deal with advanced concepts such as containerization, NVF, and security. At each point, the authors offer you advice based on the experience they've gained from designing and leading successful OpenStack projects in a wide range of industries. Each chapter also includes lab material that gives you a chance to install and configure the technologies used to build production-quality OpenStack clouds. Most importantly, the book focuses on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout.

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Introducing OpenStack

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack components

Common OpenStack use cases

Drafting an initial deployment plan

The design document

Your first OpenStack deployment

Writing the initial deployment plan

Installing OpenStack

Summary

Further reading

Architecting the Cloud

Picking an OpenStack distribution

Compute hardware considerations

Network design

Storage design

Expanding the initial deployment

Summary

Further reading

Planning for Failure and Success

Building a highly available control plane

OpenStack service specifics

Regions, cells, and availability zones

Updating the design document

Implementing HA in the lab deployment

Summary

Further reading

Building the Deployment Pipeline

Dealing with Infrastructure as a Software

Using configuration management for deployment

Test infrastructure

Putting the pipeline together

Creating the composition layer

Installing Keystone

Summary

Further reading

Building to Operate

Logging, monitoring, and alerting

Active monitoring

A dashboard example

The future of OpenStack troubleshooting and Artificial Intelligence-driven operations

Capacity planning

Backups and recovery

Summary

Further reading

Integrating the Platform

IdM integration

Provisioning workflows

Metering and billing

Updating the design document

Summary

Further reading

Securing the Cloud

Security zones within OpenStack

Software vulnerabilities

Hardening hypervisors

Summary

Further reading

OpenStack Use Cases

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) / Telco Cloud

Big data and scientific compute use case

Edge Computing use case

Summary

Containers

What are containers?

Containers and OpenStack

OpenStack container-related projects

OpenStack On Containers

Summary

Conclusion

Emerging trends in OpenStack

Building the roadmap

Summary

Further reading

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Integrating the Platform

One of the OpenStack architects we've worked with is fond of saying, No OpenStack implementation is an island. Each deployment integrates with the legacy IT infrastructure around it, from Identity management (IdM) systems to auditing systems to billing systems. OpenStack's standardized APIs make these integrations relatively simple. This chapter will cover the integration points available within an OpenStack implementation and many common integration patterns.

In this chapter, we'll look at the following points in detail:

Identity management integration
Provisioning workflows
Metering and billing

These three different platform integrations demonstrate the three prominent integration patterns for OpenStack. Integrating Keystone with an IdM system such as Active Directory is relatively prescriptive—as Cinder is designed...