At the start, this book will explain the OpenStack core architecture. You will soon be shown how to create your own OpenStack private cloud.
Next, you will move on to cover the key security layer and network troubleshooting skills, along with some advanced networking features. Finally, you will gain experience of centralizing and logging OpenStack. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs.
By the end of this book, you will be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.
Omar Khedher is a network engineer and cloud computing researcher. Based in the Netherlands, he has worked in a cloud computing solution project that turned into an OpenStack deployment and became integrated with it. Leveraging his skills as a system administrator in virtualization, storage, and networking, he is currently pursuing a PhD on performance research preparation in the cloud computing paradigm and architecture patterns in which OpenStack is taking an active part. He has recently authored a few academic publications based on new researches for the cloud performance improvement.