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Hybrid Cloud for Developers
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

by Manoj Hirway
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage Service

The OpenStack Block Storage Service is code named Cinder. It provides persistent block storage volumes that can be attached to virtual machines running on OpenStack. This service is slightly similar to Amazon EBS where a volume can be carved out of the underlying disk and attached to the instance. It should be noted that one volume can be attached to only one virtual machine instance.

The OpenStack Block Storage Service has the following components:

  • cinder-api: This provides a WSGI interface that authenticates and routes the requests to the Cinder service
  • cinder-scheduler: This component schedules and routes requests to the appropriate volume service based certain parameters 
  • cinder-volume: This component ...
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