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OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform, provides solution for infrastructure as a service. OpenStack consists of multiple component put together for providing IaaS, components are listed below with its use. Components: Component Name Use Compute (Nova) Manages virtual machines Object Storage (Swift) Manages storage across cloud Block Storage (Cinder) Manages storage to compute […]
The Swift AKA OpenStack Object Storage is a multi-tenant object storage system, provides a distributed scale-out object store across storage nodes that are in the cluster. This guide helps you to configure swift on Ubuntu 14.04.2. There are two main components in Swift: Swift proxy: It accepts API and raw http requests to upload files, […]
This is the second part of OpenStack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04.2 – Configure Cinder, in this tutorial we will install and configure Storage Node for the Cinder service. For a demo purpose, will configure this storage node with a block storage device /dev/sdb that contains partition /dev/sdb1 occupying the entire disk. Prerequisites: The following is […]
Cinder AKA OpenStack block storage service ads the persistent storage to an instance, it also provides an infrastructure for managing volumes and interacts with compute service to provide volume for instance. The amount of storage is provisioned and consumed is determined the block storage drivers, there are a variety of drivers that are available: NAS/SAN, […]
In the last tutorial, we have had created an instance using CLI; same can be done through a web interface called Horizon. It enables us to manage various OpenStack resources and services. This guide helps you to configure horizon in Ubuntu 14.04. Horizon uses OpenStack API’s to interact with the cloud controller, you can also […]