What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing OpenStack with Ansible, walks you through a practical installation of OpenStack using OpenStack-Ansible.

Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, shows you how to install the tools needed to operate OpenStack, as well as providing a quick reference to commonly used commands.

Chapter 3, Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service, explains how to use Keystone to configure and maintain services and projects within OpenStack.

Chapter 4, Neutron – OpenStack Networking, covers the introduction and use of the software-defined networking service and its plugins.

Chapter 5, Nova – OpenStack Compute, works through a number of examples of running and operating virtual machine instances to run your applications.

Chapter 6, Glance – OpenStack Image Service, explores the use of the machine images that are used to spawn instances.

Chapter 7, Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage, presents how to work with block storage volumes to attach to your instances.

Chapter 8, Swift – OpenStack Object Storage, depicts how to use the highly available and redundant object storage service.

Chapter 9, OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible, discusses how to begin orchestrating your workloads within OpenStack using both Heat and Ansible.

Chapter 10, Using OpenStack Dashboard, shows you how to navigate the Horizon user-interface dashboard.