What this book covers

Chapter 1, Day 1 - Build Your Camp, discusses the design principles of OpenStack and Cloud in general, the types of distributions, and setting up the lab environment for the hands-on chapters ahead.

Chapter 2, Day 2 - Know Your Battalion, focuses on an overview of each OpenStack core (KeyStone/Glance/Nova/Neutron/Cinder/Swift) components in detail and the real-world comparisons for the reader to understand with the ease and to learn how to use each of them.

Chapter 3, Day 3 - Field Sketch, looks at the architecture design and how the components of OpenStack are connected, followed by deployment use cases. The reader will understand the high level architectural design of OpenStack and will be able to plan and design their own deployment use cases so they can build their OpenStack cloud.

Chapter 4, Day 4 - How Stuff Works, will explain the step-by-step process of the VM provision happens in OpenStack when the user initiate VM create from horizon and the interrelationship between each OpenStack services.

Chapter 5, Day 5 - Networking Strategy, focuses on OpenStack networking in detail and the extended feature available in OpenStack neutron. This chapter covers the role of floating IPs, the available deployment types in the neutron, how the VM packets being encapsulated t to reach the destination VM and the packet flow between VMs and the internet.

Chapter 6, Day 6 - Field Training Exercise, will deals with the hands training on how to use the OpenStack Horizon for using all the OpenStack core components will be provided in this chapter. The reader will gain the hands-on experience with the OpenStack horizon and understand how each individual component worked interconnected in bringing up the Cloud environment

Chapter 7, Day 7 - Collective Training, will provide with the undisclosed tasks for the readers to take this chapter as exam. The Comprehensive practice with admin and end-user use cases will test the reader’s ability in understanding the OpenStack environment.

Chapter 8, Day 8 - Build Your OpenStack, this chapter will guide through a step-by-step package-based installation of the Ocata OpenStack on the Ubuntu operating system.

Chapter 9, Day 9 - Repair OpenStack, discusses how to start with troubleshooting each OpenStack components and the respective log files to look in. This chapter will also provide the guidance to the reader on how to start with getting help from OpenStack community.

Chapter 10, Day 10 - Side Arms of OpenStack, will walk through the overview of additional services available in the OpenStack and its scope in high level. The reader will learn the overview of optional services in OpenStack and its interrelation with the OpenStack core components.

What you need for this book

You can benefit greatly by having a system running VirtualBox (or any of its alternatives) and a virtual machine running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The commands and resources discussed in this book are best learned when you can execute them on the test system. Familiarity with the Linux command-line and experience with Linux system administration is expected.

Who this book is for

This book is perfect for administrators, cloud engineers, and operators who wants to jump right into practical knowledge, exercises, and solving the basic problems encountered during deployment, in order to get up to speed with the latest release of OpenStack.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Day 1 - Build Your Camp

Chapter 2: Day 2 - Know Your Battalion

Chapter 3: Day 3 - Field Sketch

Chapter 4: Day 4 - How Stuff Works

Chapter 5: Day 5 - Networking Strategy

Chapter 6: Day 6 - Field Training Exercise

Chapter 7: Day 7 - Collective Training

Chapter 8: Day 8 - Build Your OpenStack

Chapter 9: Day 9 - Repairing OpenStack

Chapter 10: Day 10 - Side Arms of OpenStack

About the Author

Vinoth Kumar Selvaraj is an enthusiastic computer science engineer from Tamil Nadu, India. He works as a DevOps engineer at Cloudenablers Inc. As an active moderator on Ask OpenStack, he consistently answers and provides solutions for questions posted on the Ask OpenStack forum. Based on karma points, he was ranked 20 out of 20,000 members in the Ask OpenStack forum. He has also written many OpenStack-related articles for superuser.openstack.org and hosts a dedicated website for his works on OpenStack at http://www.hellovinoth.com/.

You can visit his LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinothkumarselvaraj/ and tweet to him @vinoth6664.