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OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2

You're reading from OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 Automate and monitor administrative tasks

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787121638

Length 230 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Walter Bentley

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 Second Edition

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Preface

1. Introduction to OpenStack FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Ansible

3. Creating Multiple Users/Projects

4. Customizing Your Clouds Quotas

5. Snapshot Your Cloud

6. Migrating Instances

7. Managing Containers on Your Cloud

8. Setting Up Active-Active Regions

9. Inventory Your Cloud

10. Health Check Your Cloud with Nagios

Summary

See now that was not so bad, right? Ansible really does a great job in streamlining the effort involved in automating OpenStack administrative tasks. You can now reuse that role over and over again, cutting the amount of time creating users and projects down to single digit minutes. The time investment is well worth the benefits.

In this chapter, we created users and projects within OpenStack via the API and CLI. We gathered an understanding of basic automation considerations. We also developed Ansible playbooks and roles to automate the user and project creation.

With this great foundation, we are ready to move on to our next administrative task of customizing your clouds quotas. The next chapter will include a general understanding of what quotas are and how they are used within your OpenStack cloud. We will then transition to the exercise of creating quotas manually and then concluding with how to automate that task with Ansible. See you in Chapter 4, Customizing Your Clouds Quotas...

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Authors (1)

Walter Bentley

Walter Bentley

Walter Bentley is a Rackspace Private Cloud Technical Marketing Engineer and author with a diverse background in production systems administration and solutions architecture. He has more than 15 years of experience in sectors such as online marketing, financial, insurance, aviation, the food industry, education, and now in technology. In the past, he was typically the requestor, consumer, and advisor to companies in the use of technologies such as OpenStack. Today, hes an OpenStack promoter and cloud educator. In his current role, Walter helps customers build, design, and deploy private clouds built on OpenStack. That includes professional services engagements around operating OpenStack clouds and DevOps engagements creating playbooks/roles with Ansible. He presents and speaks regularly at OpenStack Summits, AnsibleFest, and other technology conferences, plus webinars, blog posts and technical reviews. His first book, OpenStack Administration with Ansible, was released in 2016.

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