OpenStack Essentials

"OpenStack Essentials"
OpenStack Essentials is a comprehensive guide designed for IT professionals, architects, and cloud operators seeking a deep understanding of OpenStack's core components and operational intricacies. This book methodically covers every major aspect of OpenStack architecture, beginning with its origins, modular design, and community-driven governance. Readers are introduced to the fundamentals of service intercommunication, RESTful APIs, and high-level deployment topologies, laying a solid technical foundation for those aiming to architect or manage OpenStack-powered clouds.
At the heart of the book lies in-depth exploration of critical OpenStack services, including Keystone for identity and access management, Nova for compute orchestration, Swift and Cinder for object and block storage, and Neutron for advanced networking. Each chapter delivers authoritative guidance on architectural models, security, scalability, and multi-tenancy, integrating best practices for authentication, role-based access, network segmentation, and storage optimization. Detailed sections on image life cycle management, orchestration with Heat, and seamless integration with configuration management tools provide the operational blueprints needed for automating complex cloud deployments.
The closing chapters address the challenges of deploying, scaling, and securing OpenStack in real-world environments. With dedicated coverage of deployment automation tools, rolling upgrades, monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and compliance strategies, the book equips readers to confidently operate OpenStack at scale. The final sections look toward the future of cloud, discussing hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, edge computing, regulatory compliance, security threat modeling, and the vibrant OpenStack ecosystem. OpenStack Essentials is an indispensable reference for building, optimizing, and sustaining enterprise-grade private and hybrid clouds.