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Containers in OpenStack

You're reading from  Containers in OpenStack

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394383
Pages 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Working with Containers 2. Working with Container Orchestration Engines 3. OpenStack Architecture 4. Containerization in OpenStack 5. Magnum – COE Management in OpenStack 6. Zun – Container Management in OpenStack 7. Kuryr – Container Plugin for OpenStack Networking 8. Murano – Containerized Application Deployment on OpenStack 9. Kolla – Containerized Deployment of OpenStack 10. Best Practices for Containers and OpenStack

Magnum introduction


Magnum is an OpenStack service that was created in 2014 by the OpenStack containers team to enable a Container Orchestration Engine (COE) offering the ability to deploy and manage containers as first-class resources in OpenStack.

Currently, Magnum supports Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, and Docker Swarm COEs. Magnum uses Heat to do the orchestration of these COEs on VMs or bare metals provisioned by OpenStack. It uses OS images that contain the required tools to run containers. Magnum offers KeyStone compatible APIs and a complete multi-tenant solution for managing your COEs on top of an OpenStack cluster.

A Magnum cluster is a set of various resources provided by different OpenStack services. It consists of a group of VMs provisioned by Nova, networks connecting these VMs created by Neutron, volumes attached to VMs created by Cinder, and so on. A Magnum cluster can also have some external resources depending on the options provided while creating a cluster. For example, we...

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