Deploying OpenStack

Book Preface

This book is aimed at developers, technologists, and system administrators eager to understand and deploy cloud computing infrastructure projects based upon OpenStack software. It is intended to provide the reader with a solid understanding of the Open- Stack project goals, details of specific OpenStack software components, general design decisions, and detailed steps to deploy OpenStack in a few controlled scenarios. Along the way, readers would also learn common pitfalls in architecting, deploying, and implementing their cloud.

Intended Audience

This book assumes that the reader is familiar with public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud offerings such as Rackspace Cloud or Amazon Web Services. In addition, it demands an understanding of Linux systems administration, such as installing servers, networking with iptables, and basic virtualization technologies.
Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book: Italic Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, and file extensions. Constant width
Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer to program elements such as variable or function names, databases, data types, environment variables, statements, and keywords.

Constant width bold

Shows commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.

Constant width italic

Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied values or by values determined by context.