USENIX LISA 2014: Deploy and Scale OpenStack
OpenStack is the world's leading open source cloud platform, and is already changing the way enterprises approach cloud computing, specifically enabling massive scale private infrastructure as a service. Any OpenStack deployment involves multiple required components, and many more optional add-ons. As such, your first OpenStack installation can be intimidating, with the various moving pieces. And scaling it—well, where do you even begin? You begin by attending this session! In 90 minutes, we will deploy OpenStack multiple times, to real, physical hardware nodes, on stage, with LEDs that even light up. We'll scale up core services, such as compute (Nova) and storage (Swift, Ceph, Cinder). We'll create a network (Neutron), import images (Glance). And we'll launch some instances. Finally, we'll deploy a real workload to our brand new private cloud. You should leave this session with thorough practical knowledge about OpenStack's core components, as well as effective and efficient mechanisms for deploying and scaling OpenStack in a real environment.