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OpenStack Cloud
Computing Cookbook
Fourth Edition
Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and
operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage,
networking, and automation
Kevin Jackson
Cody Bunch
Egle Sigler
James Denton
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook
Fourth Edition
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Contributors
About the authors
Kevin Jackson is married and has three children. He is an IT professional with over 20
years of experience, working with businesses and enterprises of all sizes at Rackspace, as
an OpenStack and private cloud specialist. Kevin has been working with OpenStack since the
first release, and he has extensive experience of various flavors of Linux, Unix, and hosting
environments. Kevin authored the first edition of this book, and coauthored the second and
third editions. Kevin also coauthored OpenStack Architecture Design Guide, OpenStack
Foundation, during a 5-day book sprint in California. He also regularly speaks at OpenStack
community events.
Cody Bunch is a principal architect in the Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of
San Antonio, Texas. Cody has been working with OpenStack since early 2012, coauthored
the second edition of this book, and also coauthored OpenStack Security Guide, OpenStack
Foundation. Cody has extensive experience with virtualized and cloud environments in
variously sized enterprises and hosting environments.
Egle Sigler is an OpenStack Foundation board member and a principal architect in the
Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of San Antonio, Texas. Egle holds an MS degree
in computer science. She started her career as a software developer and still has a soft spot
for all the people who write, test, and deploy code, since she has had the chance to do all
of these tasks throughout her career. Egle dreams about a day when writing, testing, and
deploying code will be a seamless and easy process—bug and frustration free for all. Egle
believes that knowledge should be shared and has tried to do this by writing this book, giving
talks and workshops at conferences, and blogging.
I would like to thank my husband and daughter for their unwavering support
and love. Roy and Elena, you make everything better! I ask for forgiveness
from my friends and family, who didn’t get to talk to me very much while I
was working on this book.
OpenStack developers, quality engineers, operators, users, and
documentation writers, thank you all for making OpenStack better each day!
Kevin, Cody, and James, thank you for bringing me along on this adventure! I
cannot believe how much quality work was put into this book.
Technical reviewers, thank you for volunteering hundreds of hours to review
everything.
Reviewers and editors from Packt, thank you for your prompt communication
and constant feedback. Rackers, thank you for your advice and guidance.
Lastly, thanks to Rackspace for supporting my writing endeavors.
James Denton is a principal architect at Rackspace with over 15 years of experience in
systems administration and networking. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management
with a focus in Computer Information Systems from Texas State University in San Marcos,
Texas. He is currently focused on OpenStack operations and support within the Rackspace
Private Cloud team. James is the author of the Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), first
and second editions, as well as OpenStack Networking Essentials both by Packt Publishing.
I’d like to thank my wife, Amanda, for providing time, encouragement, and
patience throughout the writing of this book. I would also like to thank my
team at Rackspace for providing valuable feedback and experience.
Without NASA, Rackspace, and countless other contributors to OpenStack,
none of this would have been possible. To the developers, operators, and
users of OpenStack I say, "Thank you!"
About the reviewers
Christian Ashby has a broad range of experience working with the architecture of Cloud
environments - with every definition from "someone else’s data center" to serverless / no-ops
public cloud and PaaS environments. With a background in large IT outsourcing designing
scale-up compute and storage solutions, Christian has been focusing more and more on
Cloud architectures and assisting his customers find their route to the Cloud and modern IT
practices. OpenStack has always been one of the components of this customer journey, and
Christian is pleased to see it move deeper into the Enterprise space with later releases, and
hopes that this trend continues.
I would like to thank Kevin Jackson for recommending me to review the
book; it’s been a good experience and it’s been great working with the team.
Stefano Canepa is an information and communication technology professional with more
then 20 years of various experiences. Stefano’s main interest now is cloud computing with a
special focus on OpenStack, its management, and centralized logging solutions. He started
working as system administrator in one of the first internet service providers established
in Italy. At that time, it was natural to install applications you needed from source code, so
he learnt programming on Unix. He started looking after Windows systems and, at his new
company, Stefano was involved in the deployment and administration of a huge network
of Windows NT computers spread all over Italy. He continued his career moving to network
design and testing. He then turned into a full time software developer, and for a while Stefano
wrote applications to control medical devices. He moved to a new company and switched to
write railways’ centralized traffic control GUI applications. After that experience, Stefano was
hired as the system software engineer to manage clouds in a team of professionals coming
from all over the world.
Ricky Donato is an NFV/SDN solutions architect, with a passion for open source and an
unhealthy love for Costa coffee. In his 23 years in the industry, his technical experience has
covered networking design, development, network security, and OpenStack.
Geoff Higginbottom is an OpenStack specialist architect at Rackspace, where he is
responsible for designing OpenStack Clouds for customers. Prior to Rackspace, Geoff was
the technical cofounder, CTO, and cloud architect at a boutique cloud consultancy, where he
designed numerous public and private cloud deployments. Geoff’s technical career started
with real-time computer systems while serving in the Royal Navy as a computer engineer in
the 90s, and it has now spanned to almost every facet of IT. Geoff is a keen sailor, scuba
diver, motorcyclist, and amateur photographer, and his ambition is to one day sail around the
world!
Andrew McCrae works as a software developer at Rackspace, in the Rackspace Private
Cloud team, working specifically on Ceph storage solutions. He was the project technical
lead for the OpenStack-Ansible project for the Ocata and Pike cycles. Andy began his
career in 2007 at Rackspace, as a Linux systems administrator, after completing a masters
in Engineering, majoring Computer Science at University College London (UCL). Andy
specializes in distributed storage, specifically Swift (OpenStack Object Storage), and Ceph, as
well as in deployment automation using tools such as Ansible and Chef. He was previously a
core reviewer on the Chef-OpenStack project. Andy was also a reviewer on the third edition of
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Wojciech Sciesinski is an IT professional with 15 years of experience in a broad range
of technologies, namely Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Server, PowerShell, Linux,
automation, virtualization, and cloud-related tools, and roles, particularly, a support engineer,
architect, and developer. Wojciech is curious about new things, especially when they are open
source and complicated enough to not be boring.
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