Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Architecture and
Component Overview
OpenStack architecture
Dashboard
Keystone
Glance
Neutron
Nova
Cinder
Swift
Ceilometer
Heat
Summary
Chapter 2: RDO Installation
Installing RDO using Packstack
Preparing nodes for installation
Installing Packstack and generating an answer file
Summary
Chapter 3: Identity Management
Services and endpoints
Hierarchy of users, tenants, and roles
Creating a user
Creating a tenant
Granting a role
Logging in with the new user
Interacting with Keystone in the dashboard
Endpoints in the dashboard
Summary
Chapter 4: Image Management
Glance as a registry of images
Downloading and registering an image
Using the web interface
Building an image
Summary
Chapter 5: Network Management
Networking and Neutron
Network fabric
Open vSwitch configuration
VLAN
GRE tunnels
VXLAN tunnels
Creating a network
Web interface management
External network access
Preparing a network
Creating an external network
Web interface external network setup
Summary
Chapter 6: Instance Management
Managing flavors
Managing key pairs
Launching an instance
Managing floating IP addresses
Managing security groups
Communicating with the instance
Launching an instance using the web interface
Summary
Chapter 7: Block Storage
Use case
Creating and using block storage
Attaching the block storage to
an instance
Managing Cinder volumes in the web interface
Backing storage
Cinder types
GlusterFS setup
Summary
Chapter 8: Object Storage
Use case
Architecture of a Swift cluster
Creating and using object storage
Object file management in the web interface
Using object storage on an instance
Ring files
Creating ring files
Summary
Chapter 9: Telemetry
Understanding the data store
Definitions of Ceilometer's configuration terms
Pipelines
Meters
Samples
Statistics
Alarms
Graphing the data
Summary
Chapter 10: Orchestration
About orchestration
Writing templates
The AWS CloudFormation format
The Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) format
Launching a stack
Autoscaling instances with Heat
LBaaS setup
Web interface
Summary
Chapter 11: Scaling Horizontally
Scaling compute nodes
Installing more control and networking
Scaling control and network services
Load-balancing keystone
Additional Keystone tuning
Glance load balancing
Scaling other services
High availability
Highly available database and message bus
Summary
Chapter 12: Monitoring
Monitoring defined
Installing Nagios
Adding Nagios host checks
Nagios commands
Monitoring methods
Non-OpenStack service checks
Monitoring control services
Monitoring network services
Monitoring compute services
Summary
Chapter 13: Troubleshooting
The debug command line option
Tail the server logs
Troubleshooting Keystone and authentication
Troubleshooting Glance image management
Troubleshooting Neutron networking
Troubleshooting Nova launching instances
Troubleshooting post-boot metadata
Troubleshooting console access
Troubleshooting Cinder block storage
Troubleshooting Swift object storage
Troubleshooting Ceilometer Telemetry
Troubleshooting Heat orchestration
Getting more help
Summary
Index