About This Book
- Explore the various design choices available for cloud architects within an OpenStack deployment
- Craft an OpenStack architecture and deployment pipeline to meet the unique needs of your organization
- Create a product roadmap for Infrastructure as a Service in your organization using this hands-on guide
Who This Book Is For
This book is written especially for those who will design OpenStack clouds and lead their implementation. These people are typically cloud architects, but may also be in product management, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture.
What You Will Learn
- Familiarize yourself with the components of OpenStack
- Build an increasingly complex OpenStack lab deployment
- Write compelling documentation for the architecture teams within your organization
- Apply Agile configuration management techniques to deploy OpenStack
- Integrate OpenStack with your organization's identity management, provisioning, and billing systems
- Configure a robust virtual environment for users to interact with
- Use enterprise security guidelines for your OpenStack deployment
- Create a product roadmap that delivers functionality quickly to the users of your platform
In Detail
Over the last five years, hundreds of organizations have successfully
implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on
OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations,
industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders such
as Red Hat have led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important
open source technology since the Linux operating system. Because of its
ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source
project that requires a diverse skill-set to design and implement it.
This
guide leads you through each of the major decision points that you'll
face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your
organization. At each point, we offer you advice based on the experience
we'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, we focus
on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your
organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout.
