April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
The OpenStack block storage service (Cinder) provides the ability to create raw volumes on the underlying disk. The block storage service provides a pluggable architecture wherein you can attach vendor-specific plugins for creation and manipulation of volumes. By default, the block storage service uses Linux's native Logical Volume Manager driver. In other words, when a volume is created using the block storage service, an LVM volume is created underneath.
Let's see what the Python SDK offers for interacting with the block storage service.