Chapter 4. Understanding private cloud building blocks

This chapter covers

  • Understanding OpenStack core project interoperability
  • Exploring the relationship between vendor hardware and OpenStack
  • Learning from a manual OpenStack install

In chapter 1 you were introduced to OpenStack. You learned how OpenStack fits into the cloud ecosystem, reasons for adopting the technology, and the focus of this book. In chapter 2 you went from those high-level concepts directly into a hands-on test-drive of the OpenStack framework using DevStack. In chapter 3 you worked through some examples that you might encounter working as an OpenStack operator and gained further insight into the structure of the framework.

In this chapter, we’ll shift back to the ...

Get OpenStack in Action now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.