Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Introducing OpenStack

1.1. What is OpenStack?

1.2. Understanding cloud computing and OpenStack

1.2.1. Abstraction and the OpenStack API

1.3. Relating OpenStack to the computational resources it controls

1.3.1. OpenStack and hypervisors

1.3.2. OpenStack and network services

1.3.3. OpenStack and storage

1.3.4. OpenStack and cloud terminology

1.4. Introducing OpenStack components

1.5. History of OpenStack

1.6. Summary

Chapter 2. Taking an OpenStack test-drive

2.1. What is DevStack?

2.2. Deploying DevStack

2.2.1. Creating the server

2.2.2. Preparing the server environment

2.2.3. Preparing DevStack

2.2.4. Executing DevStack

2.3. Using the OpenStack Dashboard

2.3.1. Overview screen

2.3.2. Access & Security screen

2.3.3. Images & Snapshots screen

2.3.4. Volumes screen

2.3.5. Instances screen

2.4. Accessing your first private cloud server

2.4.1. Assigning a floating IP to an instance

2.4.2. Permitting network traffic to your floating IP

2.5. Summary

Chapter 3. Learning basic OpenStack operations

3.1. Using the OpenStack CLI

3.2. Using the OpenStack APIs

3.3. Tenant model operations

3.3.1. The tenant model

3.3.2. Creating tenants, users, and roles

3.3.3. Tenant networks

3.4. Quotas

3.4.1. Tenant quotas

3.4.2. Tenant-user quotas

3.4.3. Additional quotas

3.5. Summary

Chapter 4. Understanding private cloud building blocks

4.1. How are OpenStack components related?

4.1.1. Understanding component communication

4.1.2. Distributed computing model

4.2. How is OpenStack related to vendor technologies?

4.2.1. Using vendor storage systems with OpenStack

4.2.2. Using vendor network systems with OpenStack

4.3. Why walk through a manual deployment?

4.4. Summary

2. Walking through a manual deployment

Chapter 5. Walking through a Controller deployment

5.1. Deploying controller prerequisites

5.1.1. Preparing the environment

5.1.2. Configuring the network interface

5.1.3. Updating packages

5.1.4. Installing software dependencies

5.2. Deploying shared services

5.2.1. Deploying the Identity Service (Keystone)

5.2.2. Deploying the Image Service (Glance)

5.3. Deploying the Block Storage (Cinder) service

5.3.1. Creating the Cinder data store

5.3.2. Configuring a Cinder Keystone user

5.3.3. Creating the Cinder service and endpoint

5.3.4. Installing Cinder

5.4. Deploying the Networking (Neutron) service

5.4.1. Creating the Neutron data store

5.4.2. Configuring a Neutron Keystone user

5.4.3. Installing Neutron

5.5. Deploying the Compute (Nova) service

5.5.1. Creating the Nova data store

5.5.2. Configuring a Nova Keystone user

5.5.3. Assigning a role to the nova user

5.5.4. Creating the Nova service and endpoint

5.5.5. Installing the Nova controller

5.6. Deploying the Dashboard (Horizon) service

5.6.1. Installing Horizon

5.6.2. Accessing Horizon

5.6.3. Debugging Horizon

5.7. Summary

Chapter 6. Walking through a Networking deployment

6.1. Deploying network prerequisites

6.1.1. Preparing the environment

6.1.2. Configuring the network interfaces

6.1.3. Updating packages

6.1.4. Software and configuration dependencies

6.1.5. Installing Open vSwitch

6.1.6. Configuring Open vSwitch

6.2. Installing Neutron

6.2.1. Installing Neutron components

6.2.2. Configuring Neutron

6.2.3. Configuring the Neutron ML2 plug-in

6.2.4. Configuring the Neutron L3 agent

6.2.5. Configuring the Neutron DHCP agent

6.2.6. Configuring the Neutron Metadata agent

6.2.7. Restarting and verifying Neutron agents

6.2.8. Creating Neutron networks

6.2.9. Relating Linux, OVS, and Neutron

6.2.10. Checking Horizon

6.3. Summary

Chapter 7. Walking through a Block Storage deployment

7.1. Deploying Block Storage prerequisites

7.1.1. Preparing the environment

7.1.2. Configuring the network interface

7.1.3. Updating packages

7.1.4. Installing and configuring the Logical Volume Manager

7.2. Deploying Cinder

7.2.1. Installing Cinder

7.2.2. Configuring Cinder

7.2.3. Restarting and verifying the Cinder agents

7.3. Testing Cinder

7.3.1. Create a Cinder volume: command line

7.3.2. Create a Cinder volume: Dashboard

7.4. Summary

Chapter 8. Walking through a Compute deployment

8.1. Deploying Compute prerequisites

8.1.1. Preparing the environment

8.1.2. Configuring the network interface

8.1.3. Updating packages

8.1.4. Software and configuration dependencies

8.1.5. Installing Open vSwitch

8.1.6. Configuring Open vSwitch

8.2. Installing a hypervisor

8.2.1. Verifying your host as a hypervisor platform

8.2.2. Using KVM

8.3. Installing Neutron on Compute nodes

8.3.1. Installing the Neutron software

8.3.2. Configuring Neutron

8.3.3. Configuring the Neutron ML2 plug-in

8.4. Installing Nova on compute nodes

8.4.1. Installing the Nova software

8.4.2. Configuring core Nova components

8.4.3. Checking Horizon

8.5. Testing Nova

8.5.1. Creating an instance (VM): command line

8.6. Summary

3. Building a production environment

Chapter 9. Architecting your OpenStack

9.1. Replacement of existing virtual server platforms

9.1.1. Making deployment choices

9.1.2. What kind of network are you?

9.1.3. What type of storage are you?

9.1.4. What kind of server are you?

9.2. Why build a private cloud?

9.2.1. Public cloud economy-of-scale myth

9.2.2. Global scale or tight control

9.2.3. Keeping data gravity private

9.2.4. Hybrid moments

9.3. Building a private cloud

9.3.1. OpenStack deployment tools

9.3.2. Networking in your private cloud

9.3.3. Storage in your private cloud

9.4. Summary

Chapter 10. Deploying Ceph

10.1. Preparing Ceph nodes

10.1.1. Node authentication and authorization

10.1.2. Deploying Ceph software

10.2. Creating a Ceph cluster

10.2.1. Creating the initial configuration

10.2.2. Deploying Ceph software

10.2.3. Deploying the initial configuration

10.3. Adding OSD resources

10.3.1. Readying OSD devices

10.3.2. Creating OSDs

10.4. Basic Ceph operations

10.4.1. Ceph pools

10.4.2. Benchmarking a Ceph cluster

10.5. Summary

Chapter 11. Automated HA OpenStack deployment with Fuel

11.1. Preparing your environment

11.1.1. Network hardware

11.1.2. Server hardware

11.2. Deploying Fuel

11.2.1. Installing Fuel

11.3. Web-based basic Fuel OpenStack deployment

11.3.1. Server discovery

11.3.2. Creating a Fuel deployment environment

11.3.3. Configuring the network for the environment

11.3.4. Allocating hosts to your environment

11.3.5. Final settings and verification

11.3.6. Deploying changes

11.4. Summary

Chapter 12. Cloud orchestration using OpenStack

12.1. OpenStack Heat

12.1.1. Heat templates

12.1.2. A Heat demonstration

12.2. Ubuntu Juju

12.2.1. Preparing OpenStack for Juju

12.2.2. Installing Juju

12.2.3. Deploying the charms CLI

12.2.4. Deploying the Juju GUI

12.3. Summary

Installing Linux

A.1. Getting started

A.2. Initial configuration

A.3. Network configuration

A.3.1. Manually configuring the adapter

A.3.2. Configuring host and domain names

A.4. User configuration

A.5. Disks and partitions

A.5.1. Configuring the block device (hard drive)

A.5.2. Configuring root and swap partitions and mount points

A.5.3. Finalizing the disk configuration

A.6. Base system configuration

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

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