Designing an OpenStack cloud is a great achievement. It requires a
robust understanding of the requirements and needs of the cloud’s users to
determine the best possible configuration to meet them. OpenStack provides
a great deal of flexibility to achieve your needs, and this part of the
book aims to shine light on many of the decisions you need to make during
the process.
To design, deploy, and configure OpenStack, administrators must
understand the logical architecture. A diagram can help you envision all
the integrated services within OpenStack and how they interact with each
other.
OpenStack modules are one of the following types:
Daemon
Runs as a background process. On Linux platforms, a daemon is
usually installed as a service.
Script
Installs a virtual environment and runs tests.
Command-line interface (CLI)
Enables users to submit API calls to OpenStack services
through commands.
As shown, end users can interact through the dashboard, CLIs, and
APIs. All services authenticate through a common Identity Service, and
individual services interact with each other through public APIs, except
where privileged administrator commands are necessary. Figure I-2 shows the most common, but not the
only logical architecture for an OpenStack cloud.
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