Chapter 9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction – orchestrating with OpenStack
  • Creating your first stack with Heat
  • Launching your stack with Heat
  • Viewing the resources and output of a stack created with Heat
  • Deleting a Heat stack
  • Updating a Heat stack
  • Installing and configuring Ansible for OpenStack
  • Using Ansible to launch instances
  • Using Ansible to orchestrate software installation
  • Using Ansible to orchestrate software installations across multiple instances
  • Using Ansible to fully orchestrate the creation of a web server and load balancer stack

Introduction – orchestrating with OpenStack

OpenStack is chosen as a platform for many reasons, but one that frequently tops the list is orchestration. ...

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