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Introduction
Introducing Fuel for OpenStack
OpenStack is an extensible, versatile, and flexible cloud management platform. By exposing its portfolio of cloud infrastructure services – compute, storage, networking and other core resources — through ReST APIs, OpenStack enables a wide range of control over these services, both from the perspective of an integrated Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) controlled by applications, as well as automated manipulation of the infrastructure itself.
This architectural flexibility doesn’t set itself up magically. It asks you, the user and cloud administrator, to organize and manage an extensive array of configuration options. Consequently, getting the most out of your OpenStack cloud over time – in terms of flexibility, scalability, and manageability – requires a thoughtful combination of complex configuration choices. This can be very time consuming and requires that you become familiar with much of the documentation from the number of different projects.
Mirantis Fuel for OpenStack was created to eliminate exactly these problems. This step-by-step guide takes you through this process of:
- Configuring OpenStack and its supporting components into a robust cloud architecture
- Deploying that architecture through an effective, well-integrated automation package that sets up and maintains the components and their configurations
- Providing access to a tested, integrated, and up-to-date set of components proven to work together
Fuel for OpenStack can be used to create and support many popular OpenStack configurations. To make the process easier, the installation includes several pre-defined architectures. For the sake of simplicity, this guide emphasizes a single, common reference architecture; the multi-node, high-availability configuration. We begin with an explanation of this architecture, then move on to the details of creating the configuration in a test environment using VirtualBox. Finally, we provide you the information you need to know to create this and other OpenStack architectures in a production environment.