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Published inOct 2020

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Vedran Dakic

Humble Devassy Chirammal

Prasad Mukhedkar

Anil Vettathu

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In this chapter, we spent a lot of time describing the architecture and inner workings of OpenStack. We discussed software-defined networking and its challenges, as well as different OpenStack services such as Nova, Swift, Glance, and so on. Then, we moved on to practical issues, such as deploying Packstack (let's just call that OpenStack for proof of concept), and full OpenStack. In the last part of this chapter, we discussed OpenStack-Ansible integration and what it might mean for us in larger environments.

Now that we've covered the private cloud aspect, it's time to grow our environment and expand it to a more public or hybrid-based approach. In KVM-based infrastructures, this usually means connecting to AWS to convert your workloads and transfer them there (public cloud). If we're discussing the hybrid type of cloud functionality, then we have to introduce an application called Eucalyptus. For the hows and whys, check out the next chapter.

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Published in: Oct 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838828714

Authors (4)

Vedran Dakic

Vedran Dakic is a master of electrical engineering and computing and an IT trainer, covering system administration, cloud, automatization, and orchestration courses. He is a certified Red Hat, VMware, and Microsoft trainer. He's currently employed as head of the department of operating systems at Algebra University College in Zagreb. As part of this job, he's a lecturer for 3- and 5-year study programs in system engineering, programming, and multimedia tracks. Also, he does a lot of consulting and systems integration for his clients' projects – something he has been doing for the past 25 years. His approach is simple – bring real-world experience to all the courses that he teaches as it brings added value to his students and customers.
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Humble Devassy Chirammal

Humble Devassy Chirammal works as a senior software engineer at Red Hat in the Storage Engineering team. He has more than 10 years of IT experience and his area of expertise is in knowing the full stack of an ecosystem and architecting the solutions based on the demand. These days, he primarily concentrates on GlusterFS and emerging technologies, such as IaaS, PaaS solutions in Cloud, and Containers. He has worked on intrusion detection systems, clusters, and virtualization. He is an Open Source advocate. He actively organizes meetups on Virtualization, CentOS, Openshift, and GlusterFS. His Twitter handle is @hchiramm and his website is http://www.humblec.com/.
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Prasad Mukhedkar

Prasad Mukhedkar is a senior technical support engineer at Red Hat. His area of expertise is designing, building, and supporting IT infrastructure for workloads, especially large virtualization environments and cloud IaaS using open source technologies. He is skilled in KVM virtualization with continuous working experience from its very early stages, possesses extensive hands-on and technical knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. These days, he concentrates primarily on OpenStack and Cloudforms platforms. His other area of interest includes Linux performance tuning, designing highly scalable open source identity management solutions, and enterprise IT security. He is a huge fan of the Linux "GNU Screen" utility.
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Anil Vettathu

Anil Vettathu started his association with Linux in college and began his career as a Linux System Administrator soon after. He is a generalist and is interested in Open Source technologies. He has hands on experience in designing and implementing large scale virtualization environments using open source technologies and has extensive knowledge in libvirt and KVM. These days he primarily works on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, containers and real time performance tuning. Currently, he is working as a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat. His website is http://anilv.in.
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