Chapter 6. Managing Big Data in OpenStack

"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

–John F. Kennedy

In the previous chapter, we looked at the benefits of using containers for application development and management life cycle. We have seen the OpenStack community's focus on the containerization concept. Integrating amazing projects such as Magnum would help us increase the agility in running and scaling containerized applications in an OpenStack environment. However, there are still other areas that we haven't looked at, concerning the needs of IT organizations. The past decade has shown an impressive increase in data usage that generates more data cycles to analyze and quantify. IT organizations have started to invest in finding the right tools to extract the most valuable results from this immense amount of data in real time. Big data has become one of the most important fields in which businesses can invest. The need to provide the right tools to save the business...