April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
8h 9m
English
book
OpenStack Operations Guide
by Tom Fifield, Diane Fleming, Anne Gentle, Lorin Hochstein, Jonathan Proulx, Everett Toews, Joe Topjian
Content preview from OpenStack Operations GuideBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 17. Advanced Configuration
OpenStack is intended to work well across a variety of installation flavors, from very small private clouds to large public clouds. To achieve this, the developers add configuration options to their code that allow the behavior of the various components to be tweaked depending on your needs. Unfortunately, it is not possible to cover all possible deployments with the default configuration values.
At the time of writing, OpenStack has more than 1,500 configuration options. You can see them documented at the OpenStack configuration reference guide. This chapter cannot hope to document all of these, but we do try to introduce the important concepts so that you know where to go digging for more information.
Differences Between Various Drivers
Many OpenStack projects implement a driver layer, and each of these drivers will implement its own configuration options. For example, in OpenStack Compute (nova), there are various hypervisor drivers implemented—libvirt, xenserver, hyper-v, and vmware, for example. Not all of these hypervisor drivers have the same features, and each has different tuning requirements.
Note
The currently implemented hypervisors are listed on the OpenStack documentation website. You can see a matrix of the various features in OpenStack Compute (nova) hypervisor drivers on the OpenStack wiki at the Hypervisor support matrix page.
The point we are trying to make here is that just because an option exists doesn’t mean that option is relevant ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.