OpenStack Administrator Guide¶
Abstract¶
OpenStack offers open source software for OpenStack administrators to manage and troubleshoot an OpenStack cloud.
Note
This guide documents OpenStack Ocata, Newton, and Mitaka releases and may not apply to EOL releases Kilo and Liberty.
Contents¶
- Conventions
- Get started with OpenStack
- Identity management
- Identity concepts
- Certificates for PKI
- Domain-specific configuration
- External authentication with Identity
- Integrate Identity with LDAP
- Keystone tokens
- Configure Identity service for token binding
- Fernet - Frequently Asked Questions
- Use trusts
- Caching layer
- Security compliance and PCI-DSS
- Example usage and Identity features
- Authentication middleware with user name and password
- Identity API protection with role-based access control (RBAC)
- Troubleshoot the Identity service
- Dashboard
- Customize and configure the Dashboard
- Set up session storage for the Dashboard
- Create and manage images
- Create and manage roles
- Manage projects and users
- Manage instances
- Manage flavors
- Manage volumes and volume types
- Manage shares and share types
- View and manage quotas
- View cloud resources
- Create and manage host aggregates
- Launch and manage stacks using the Dashboard
- Compute
- Image
- Object Storage
- Introduction to Object Storage
- Features and benefits
- Object Storage characteristics
- Components
- Ring-builder
- Cluster architecture
- Replication
- Large object support
- Object Auditor
- Erasure coding
- Account reaper
- Configure project-specific image locations with Object Storage
- Object Storage monitoring
- System administration for Object Storage
- Troubleshoot Object Storage
- Block Storage
- Shared File Systems
- Networking
- Introduction to Networking
- Networking architecture
- Plug-in configurations
- Configure neutron agents
- Configure Identity service for Networking
- Advanced configuration options
- Scalable and highly available DHCP agents
- Use Networking
- Advanced features through API extensions
- Advanced operational features
- Authentication and authorization
- Telemetry
- Database
- Bare Metal
- Orchestration
- OpenStack command-line clients
- Command-line client overview
- Install the OpenStack command-line clients
- Discover the version number for a client
- Set environment variables using the OpenStack RC file
- Manage projects, users, and roles
- Manage project security
- Manage services
- Manage images
- Manage volumes
- Manage shares
- Manage flavors
- Manage the OpenStack environment
- Manage quotas
- Analyze log files
- Manage Block Storage scheduling
- Cross-project features
- Appendix
- Community support
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