Table Of ContentApache CloudStack Cloud
Computing
Leverage the power of CloudStack and learn to extend
the CloudStack environment
Navin Sabharwal
Ravi Shankar
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing
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About the Authors
Navin Sabharwal is an innovator, as well as a leader, author, and consultant in
areas of Cloud Computing, Cloud Lifecycle Management, and Software Product
Development.
He has been involved in identifying white spaces in areas of Information Technology
and creating innovative products and services. He has taken ideas from their
inception to revenue generation.
He has taken some of his ideas to develop innovative award winning products
and solutions in the areas of Cloud Lifecycle Management, IT infrastructure
management, IT processes, reporting analytics, and governance.
He works for HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division and leads the
Automation and Cloud Computing Practice.
I would like to thank my family and friends, my co-author Ravi
Shankar and the entire team working with me on Cloud Computing
technologies. I would like to express my gratitude to my mentor
Kalyan Kumar and HCL for giving me the freedom to innovate
and experiment.
Special thanks to the entire Packt Publishing team who have worked
hard with us all through the publication cycle of this book. Anish
Ramchandani, Sweny Sukumaran, Mary Nadar, Wilson D'souza,
Nitee Shetty, Vrinda Nitesh Bhosale, Arshad Sopariwala, and
Yashodhan Dere a big thank you to all.
I would also like to thank Prof. Ravindra Dastikop who was
instrumental in guiding us and motivating us to write this book.
Ravi Shankar holds a postgraduate degree in Information Technology from the
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He
has been working on cloud-based technologies since the beginning of his career. He
has been involved in development and implementation of Private Cloud as well as
Hybrid Cloud. He has also worked on public clouds such as Amazon web services.
He has worked extensively with open source technologies in the Cloud Computing
space and on the Apache CloudStack platform.
He has also co-authored another book on Cloud Computing which is self-published
on Amazon.com and Createspace.
I would like to thank my family and friends, my co-author Navin
Sabharwal and my colleagues Piyush Pandey, Dheeraj Raghav and
Lokesh Chanana for their guidance, mentoring, and continuous
support. I would also like to thank Prof. Ravindra Dastikop, the team
at Packt Publishing, Wilson D'souza, Mary Nadar, Yashodhan Dere,
Anish Ramchandani, Nitee Shetty, Vrinda Nitesh Bhosale, Arshad
Sopariwala, and Sweny Sukumaran for the support and guidance for
writing this book.
About the Reviewers
Shanker Balan is managing consultant at ShapeBlue India, a globally leading
consultancy, providing strategy, design, and implementation of IaaS/PaaS cloud
platforms for service providers and enterprises. ShapeBlue has designed some of the
worlds most high profile clouds and consulted on the go-to-market of cloud services,
user experience, and process integration. Previously, he has also held technology
leadership positions at Yahoo and InMobi and is involved with Apache CloudStack,
Citrix CloudPlatform, and open source communities in India.
Lokesh Chanana is an engineering graduate from Maharishi Dayanand
University, Haryana, India. Inclined with an extensive interest in virtualization and
cloud automation, he has been working on various cloud-based technologies and
their integrations since the beginning of his career.
He is currently working in HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division and
is involved in the company's in-house cloud research team, working on various
open source and enterprise-level cloud solutions and their integration with various
monitoring and automation solutions. He has worked extensively on the OpenStack
platform with a good amount of work on CloudStack and VMware VCloud
Director Platform.
Kelcey Jamison-Damage is currently the Infrastructure Systems Architect at
Backbone Technology, based out of Vancouver, BC Canada.
With close to 15 years of experience in various aspects of computer technology
including sales, marketing, Internet services, support, administration, design,
architecture, and business, Kelcey now focuses on helping people make the leap into
Cloud Computing and provides consultation services primarily pertaining to Apache
CloudStack. He is a leader in the Apache CloudStack community and a committer
to the project. He focuses on marketing and providing community support for new
cloud builders.
He is currently involved in creating RAAS (Redundant Array of Application
Servers) architectures and models for flexible service delivery and SaaS foundations.
I would like to thank the community at Apache CloudStack for
helping us grow into one of the top IaaS cloud computing products,
and in doing so, making books like this possible.
Piyush Pandey is currently working as a Track Lead in HCL Comnet. He looks
after the service automation and Cloud Lifecycle Management Practice for HCL from
India. He has an overall experience of 3.5 years in IT. He is responsible for designing
automation solutions for enterprise IT infrastructure management. He is experienced
in enterprise tools in the following tracks:
• Automation tools: BMC, HP, CA, Microsoft and open source tools such
as Puppet, Chef, Cobbler, BMC Database Automation, BMC Application
Release Management, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, and HP Cloud
Service Automation
• Orchestration tools: BMC AO, HP OO, MS Opalis and VMWare orchestrator
• Monitoring tools: Nagios, Zenoss
He has worked to provide automation solutions for Fortune 500 customers such as
Cummins, Ingram Micro, SGX, GulfStream, and Xerox. He holds B.Tech degree in
computer engineering from NSIT Delhi.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Apache CloudStack Architecture 7
Introducing cloud 7
Infrastructure layer 10
Computing resources 11
Storage 11
Networks and security 12
Management layer 15
Automation 15
Orchestration 16
Task Execution 16
Service Management 16
Understanding CloudStack modules 17
Cloud deployment model 18
Zones 19
Storage 21
Primary storage 21
Secondary storage 23
CloudStack management server 24
API layer 26
Access control 27
Kernel 27
CloudStack operations 29
Security check 29
The virtual machine manager 29
Server resources 30
Installation 30
Job result 30
CloudDB 30
CloudStack networking architecture 32
Network service providers 32
CloudStack network offerings 33
