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Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

You're reading from Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam A complete guide for developers taking tests conducted by the OpenStack Foundation

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288416

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

Foundation

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Matt Dorn

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Introducing OpenStack and the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting up Your Practice Exam Environment

3. Keystone Identity Service

4. Glance Image Service

5. Nova Compute Service

6. Neutron Networking Service

7. Cinder Block-Storage Service

8. Swift Object-Storage Service

9. Heat Orchestration Service

10. Troubleshooting

11. Final Tips and Tricks

12. Practice Exam

Before you begin...

Heat resources

Resources are mandatory and are a reference to any OpenStack resources you want to create. OpenStack resources can be anything from Nova virtual machine instances to Neutron security groups. Refer to Figure 9.3. You can get a complete list of compatible resources on the Horizon dashboard by navigating to the Resource Types panel from the Project-Orchestration panel group.

Figure 9.3: A list of available Heat resources on the Horizon dashboard

Backward compatibility with AWS

You may have noticed that some of the Heat resources have a prefix AWS::. These resources are used to make CloudFormation templates compatible with OpenStack Heat. As you know, AWS and OpenStack have many different features so I do not recommend attempting to create stacks with templates that have been designed to work with AWS environments. You would be much better off refactoring your CloudFormation templates with Heat resources. But for the curious, here are a few AWS Heat resources and what they do:

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Authors (1)

Matt Dorn

Matt Dorn

Matt Dorn is a Senior Technical Instructor and Systems Engineer who has helped hundreds of teams around the world build clouds with open source projects such as OpenStack and Kubernetes. Matt is the author of the recently released book, Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam, and enjoys creating easy-to-understand learning paths that make cutting-edge technologies accessible and fun. Matt's previous experience includes working at Rackspace where he trained and mentored OpenStack Developers and System Administrators. He has also previously served in IT leadership positions for Dell Cloud Services and joined a four-person Microsoft-centric hosting startup in Philadelphia. Matt blogs about cloud-related topics at madorn.com.

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