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Contents

1. Getting Started with OpenStack
Why Cloud?
What is OpenStack?
Components of OpenStack
Conceptual Architecture
Logical Architecture
Storage Concepts
2. Introduction to OpenStack Compute
Hypervisors
Users and Tenants (Projects)
Images and Instances
System Architecture
Block Storage and OpenStack Compute
3. Installing OpenStack Compute
Compute and Image System Requirements
Installing on openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Installing OpenStack Compute on Debian
Installing on Citrix XenServer
4. Configuring OpenStack Compute
Post-Installation Configuration for OpenStack Compute
General Compute Configuration Overview
Example nova.conf Configuration Files
Configuring Logging
Configuring Hypervisors
Configuring Authentication and Authorization
Configuring Compute to use IPv6 Addresses
Configuring Image Service and Storage for Compute
Configuring Migrations
Configuring Resize
Installing MooseFS as shared storage for the instances directory
Configuring Database Connections
Configuring the Oslo RPC Messaging System
Configuring the Compute API
Configuring the EC2 API
Configuring Quotas
5. Configuration: nova.conf
File format for nova.conf
List of configuration options
6. Identity Management
Identity Service Concepts
Memcached and System Time
SSL and Keystone Configuration
User CRUD
Configuration Files
Logging
Monitoring
Certificates for PKI
Sample Configuration Files
Running
Initializing Keystone
Adding Users, Tenants, and Roles with python-keystoneclient
Configuring Services to work with Keystone
Configuring Keystone SSL support
Using External Authentication with OpenStack Identity
Troubleshooting Identity (Keystone)
7. Image Management
Configuring Tenant-specific Storage Locations for Images with Object Storage
Adding images with glance image-create
Getting virtual machine images
Booting a test image
Tearing down (deleting) Instances
Pausing and Suspending Instances
Select a specific host to boot instances on
Creating images from running instances with KVM and Xen
Replicating images across multiple data centers
8. Instance Management
Interfaces to managing instances
Instance building blocks
Creating instances
Controlling where instances run
Instance specific data
Configuring instances at boot time
Config drive
Managing instance networking
Manage Volumes
Accessing running instances
Stop and Start an Instance
Change Server Configuration
Instance evacuation
Terminate an Instance
9. Hypervisors
Selecting a Hypervisor
Hypervisor Configuration Basics
KVM
QEMU
Xen, XenAPI, XenServer and XCP
LXC (Linux containers)
VMware vSphere
PowerVM
Hyper-V Virtualization Platform
Bare Metal Driver
Nova Compute Fibre Channel Support
10. Networking with nova-network
Networking Options
DHCP server: dnsmasq
Metadata service
Configuring Networking on the Compute Node
Enabling Ping and SSH on VMs
Configuring Public (Floating) IP Addresses
Removing a Network from a Project
Using multiple interfaces for your instances (multinic)
Existing High Availability Options for Networking
Troubleshooting Networking
11. Volumes
12. Scheduling
Filter Scheduler
Filters
Weights
Other Schedulers
Host aggregates
13. Cells
14. System Administration
Understanding the Compute Service Architecture
Managing Compute Users
Managing the Cloud
Usage statistics
Managing logs
Reference Information for Securing with Root Wrappers
Using Migration
Recovering from a failed compute node
Recovering from a UID/GID mismatch
Nova Disaster Recovery Process
15. OpenStack Interfaces
About the Dashboard
Remote Console Access
16. Security Hardening
Trusted Compute Pools
17. OpenStack Compute Automated Installations
Deployment Tool for OpenStack using Puppet (dodai-deploy)
18. OpenStack Compute Tutorials
Running Your First Elastic Web Application on the Cloud
19. Support
Community Support
20. Troubleshooting OpenStack Compute
Log files for OpenStack Compute
Common Errors and Fixes for OpenStack Compute
Manually reset the state of an instance
Problems with Injection
21. Acknowledgements

List of Tables

1.1. Types of Storage
3.1. Hardware Recommendations
4.1. Description of configuration options for common
4.2. Description of configuration options for logging
4.3. Description of configuration options for hypervisor
4.4. Description of configuration options for authentication
4.5. Description of configuration options for ca
4.6. Description of configuration options for ldap
4.7. Description of configuration options for ipv6
4.8. Description of configuration options for glance
4.9. Description of configuration options for s3
4.10. Description of configuration options for livemigration
4.11. Description of configuration options for db
4.12. Description of configuration options for rabbitmq
4.13. Description of configuration options for kombu
4.14. Description of configuration options for qpid
4.15. Description of configuration options for rpc
4.16. Description of nova.conf API related configuration options
4.17. Default API Rate Limits
4.18. Description of configuration options for ec2
4.19. Description of configuration options for quota
5.1. Description of configuration options for api
5.2. Description of configuration options for authentication
5.3. Description of configuration options for availabilityzones
5.4. Description of configuration options for baremetal
5.5. Description of configuration options for ca
5.6. Description of configuration options for cells
5.7. Description of configuration options for common
5.8. Description of configuration options for compute
5.9. Description of configuration options for conductor
5.10. Description of configuration options for configdrive
5.11. Description of configuration options for console
5.12. Description of configuration options for db
5.13. Description of configuration options for ec2
5.14. Description of configuration options for fping
5.15. Description of configuration options for glance
5.16. Description of configuration options for hyperv
5.17. Description of configuration options for hypervisor
5.18. Description of configuration options for ipv6
5.19. Description of configuration options for kombu
5.20. Description of configuration options for ldap
5.21. Description of configuration options for livemigration
5.22. Description of configuration options for logging
5.23. Description of configuration options for metadata
5.24. Description of configuration options for network
5.25. Description of configuration options for periodic
5.26. Description of configuration options for policy
5.27. Description of configuration options for powervm
5.28. Description of configuration options for qpid
5.29. Description of configuration options for quantum
5.30. Description of configuration options for quota
5.31. Description of configuration options for rabbitmq
5.32. Description of configuration options for rpc
5.33. Description of configuration options for s3
5.34. Description of configuration options for scheduling
5.35. Description of configuration options for spice
5.36. Description of configuration options for testing
5.37. Description of configuration options for tilera
5.38. Description of configuration options for trustedcomputing
5.39. Description of configuration options for vmware
5.40. Description of configuration options for vnc
5.41. Description of configuration options for volumes
5.42. Description of configuration options for vpn
5.43. Description of configuration options for wsgi
5.44. Description of configuration options for xen
5.45. Description of configuration options for xvpnvncproxy
5.46. Description of configuration options for zeromq
5.47. Description of configuration options for zookeeper
6.1. Description of keystone.conf file configuration options for LDAP
8.1. List of configuration flags for NFS
8.2. Description of configuration options for configdrive
9.1. Description of configuration options for hypervisor
9.2. Description of configuration options for xen
9.3. Description of configuration options for vmware
9.4. Description of configuration options for powervm
9.5. Description of configuration options for hyperv
9.6. Description of configuration options for baremetal
10.1. Description of configuration options for metadata
10.2. Description of configuration options for vpn
13.1. Description of configuration options for cells
14.1. Description of rootwrap.conf configuration options
14.2. Description of rootwrap.conf configuration options
15.1. Description of configuration options for vnc
15.2. Description of configuration options for spice
16.1. Description of configuration options for trustedcomputing
17.1. OSes supported
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