Mastering OpenStack: Implement the latest techniques for designing and deploying an operational, 3rd Edition

Mastering OpenStack
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Part 1: Architecting the OpenStack Ecosystem
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Revisiting OpenStack – Design Considerations
   OpenStack – a plethora of innovations
   Building blocks Of OpenStack – the control plane
      Keystone – the authentication and authorization service
      Nova – the compute service
      Placement – the scheduling service
      Glance – the imaging service
      Swift – the object storage service
      Cinder – the block storage service
      Manila – the shared filesystems service
      Neutron – the networking service
      Ceilometer – the telemetry service
      Aodh – the alerting service
      Horizon – the dashboard service
      Non-OpenStack services
   Constructing the motivation
      Application development accelerator
      Cloud application enabler
      HPC supporter
      Network functions virtualization moderator
      Big data facilitator
      Private cloud service provider
      Public cloud service provider
   Picking up the pieces
   Architecting the cloud
      Drafting the conceptual design
      Drafting the logical design
      Drafting the physical design
   Summary
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Kicking Off the OpenStack Setup – The Right Way (DevSecOps)
   Removing silos – DevOps
   Shifting to the left – DevSecOps
      Securing the cloud – moving with DevSecOps
      DevSecOps and OpenStack
   Coding the cloud
   Deploying in the cloud
      Ansible in a nutshell
      Containerizing the cloud
      Building the picture
   Setting up a development environment
      Preparing the local environment
      Running the local cloud
      Extending the deployment
      Installing the deployer
      Actioning the deployer
      Deploying with security
   Summary
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OpenStack Control Plane – Shared Services
   The OpenStack control plane
      Running the control plane – cloud controller
      Shared services – infrastructure services
      Arming the control plane – prepare for failure
      Planning for more
   Extending the deployment
      Initializing the network
      Listing the cluster specs
      Preparing the infrastructure code
      Configuring the host groups
      Parameterizing the environment
      Advanced configuration
      Deploying the environment
   Summary
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OpenStack Compute – Compute Capacity and Flavors
   The compute service components
      API
      Scheduler
      Conductor
      Compute
      Console access
   Reasoning for the hypervisors
   Compute segregation
      Infrastructure segregation
   Workload segregation
      Pre-filtering
      Resource provider allocation
      Filtering
      Weighting
   Extending compute for containers
      Magnum
      Zun
   Expanding the compute farm
   Summary
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OpenStack Storage – Block, Object, and File Shares
   Defining Block Storage – Cinder
      Expanding storage with multiple backends
      Storage filtering and scheduling
   Revisiting object storage – Swift
      Revisiting Swift
      Building a Swift cluster
      Running Swift
   Exploring file share services – Manila
      Manila under the hood
      Running Manila
   Summary
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OpenStack Networking – Connectivity and Managed Service Options
   Exploring Neutron’s core components
      Demystifying Neutron agents
      Network categories
   The core of networking – Neutron plugins
      Core plugin – Modular Layer 2
      Building virtual switching
   Configuring cloud routing
      Routing tenant traffic
      Neutron dynamic routing
   Joining more networking services
      Load balancer as a service
   Summary
Part 2: Operating the OpenStack Cloud Environment
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Running a Highly Available Cloud – Meeting the SLA
   Exploring HA strategies
      Measuring HA
      Designing for HA
   Preparing for HA
      Designing with load balancing
      HA for the database
      HA for the message bus
   Deploying for HA
      HA for networking
   Managing instance failover
      Deploying Masakari
   Summary
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Monitoring and Logging – Remediating Proactively
   OpenStack infrastructure monitoring
      Prometheus in a nutshell
      Deploying infrastructure monitoring
      Exploring the monitoring data
   OpenStack workload monitoring
   Telemetry and charging back
      The Ceilometer anatomy
      The Gnocchi data store
      Alerting with Aodh
      Deploying the telemetry service
   Grasping centralized logging
      OpenSearch under the hood
      Deploying OpenSearch
   Summary
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Benchmarking the Infrastructure – Evaluating Resource Capacity and Optimization
   Empowering the database
      Running with caching
      Deploying caching
   Benchmarking the cloud
      Rally in action
   Profiling the cloud
      Profiler in action
   Watching the cloud
      Watcher in action
   Summary
Part 3: Extending the OpenStack Cloud
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OpenStack Hybrid Cloud – Design Patterns
   Hybrid cloud under scope
      Public cloud strategy
      Hybrid cloud strategy
   OpenStack meeting the public world
      Enabling the hybrid cloud
      Cloud bursting
   Security in the hybrid cloud
      Governance first
      Network security
      Hardening operation security
   Summary
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A Hybrid Cloud Hyperscale Use Case – Scaling a Kubernetes Workload
   Qualifying a hybrid architecture
      Adopting a cloud-agnostic stack
      Preparing for a hybrid model
   Designing a containerized hybrid cloud
      Kubernetes in a nutshell
      Designing a decentralized models
      Designing a centralized model
   Summary
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