Chapter 3. Learning basic OpenStack operations

This chapter covers

  • Managing the OpenStack CLI to manipulate your deployment
  • Exploring the OpenStack tenant model by building a new tenant
  • Setting up basic tenant networking with intra-tenant configuration
  • Using OpenStack networking for internal and external network configuration
  • Modifying tenant quotas to control resource allocation

This chapter builds on the deployment from chapter 2 by demonstrating basic operations you’ll encounter as an OpenStack administrator or user. Chapter 2 was more focused on end-user interaction with OpenStack, so those examples were based on the Dashboard, which is easy to use and can be used to perform many user and administrative functions. This chapter focuses ...

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