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OpenStack Essentials. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462664
Pages 182 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Dan Radez Dan Radez
Profile icon Dan Radez

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. RDO Installation 2. Identity Management 3. Image Management 4. Network Management 5. Instance Management 6. Block Storage 7. Object Storage 8. Telemetry 9. Orchestration 10. Docker 11. Scaling Horizontally 12. Monitoring 13. Troubleshooting Index

Scaling compute nodes


The first and easiest way to scale an OpenStack cluster is to add compute power. One control node can support more than one compute node. Remember installing RDO in Chapter 1, RDO Installation? We have come a long way since then! In that example, only one compute node was installed. One control node can support a large collection of compute nodes. The exact number that can be handled depends on the demand put on the cluster by its end users. It is probably safe to say that the capacity provided by one compute node is probably not going to meet most use cases, so let's take a look at how to add additional compute nodes to our OpenStack installation.

There are only two OpenStack services, NTP, and the supporting networking infrastructure that a new compute node needs to be running for it to be joined into an OpenStack cluster and start sharing the computing workload. These two services are the Nova compute service and the Neutron Open vSwitch agent. In our example installation...

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