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Containers in OpenStack

You're reading from Containers in OpenStack Leverage OpenStack services to make the most of Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788394383

Length 176 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Kumar Singh

Kumari

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Working with Containers

2. Working with Container Orchestration Engines FREE CHAPTER

3. OpenStack Architecture

4. Containerization in OpenStack

5. Magnum – COE Management in OpenStack

6. Zun – Container Management in OpenStack

7. Kuryr – Container Plugin for OpenStack Networking

8. Murano – Containerized Application Deployment on OpenStack

9. Kolla – Containerized Deployment of OpenStack

10. Best Practices for Containers and OpenStack

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a container orchestration engine created by Google, designed to automate the deployment, scaling, and operating of containerized applications. It is one of the fastest developing COEs because it provides a reliable platform to build distributed applications on a massive scale. Kubernetes automates your application, manages its life cycle, and maintains and tracks resource allocation in a cluster of servers. It can run application containers on physical or virtual machine clusters.

It provides a unified API to deploy web applications, databases, and batch jobs. It comprises of a rich set of complex features:

Auto-scaling
Self-healing infrastructure
Configuration and updating of batch jobs
Service discovery and load balancing
Application life cycle management
Quota management

Kubernetes architecture

This section outlines the Kubernetes architecture and the various components that deliver a running cluster.

Kubernetes consists of the following components from a top-level view...

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Authors (2)

Kumar Singh

Kumar Singh

Pradeep Kumar Singh is an OpenStack developer. He has expertise in the domains of containers, storage, and web application development. Pradeep is a core reviewer for OpenStack Zun. Pradeep also loves machine learning and the infrastructure part of it. In his free time, he plays with his Raspberry Pi 3 clusters, and also loves to write code in different programming languages.

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Kumari

Kumari

Madhuri Kumari is an OpenStack developer. She has expertise in the domains of cloud computing, containers, and virtualization. She has been working on OpenStack since December 2014 and is a core reviewer for two OpenStack projects, Magnum and Zun. Besides this, she has also worked on the Ironic, Swift, Murano, and Valence. She is an active speaker at OpenStack summits, LinuxCon, and local meetups. She was also nominated for the RedHat Women in Open Source Award, 2017.

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