OpenStack Information

On this page you will find links to instructional information including e-books and YouTube videos recorded at the semi-annual OpenStack Summit and all published by the OpenStack Foundation. These resources will be updated periodically.

The current version of OpenStack is Mitaka and was released at the OpenStack Summit in Austin in April, 2016. This marks the 13th version of OpenStack since its inception by NASA and Rackspace in 2010 (a short video history tour is available at http://youtu.be/bxotAMyofB4).


The OpenStack Foundation's SuperUser site provides some additional information on how certain organizations are deploying OpenStack.

The subsections below provide seminal information regarding OpenStack and its individual components and relevant links about those component. As the content evolves, additional information and links will be posted for your consumption.

OpenStack Operations Guide

The OpenStack Ops Guide is the best place to start if you want to learn about OpenStack holistically. It gives a good overview of OpenStack, a basic explanation of how it works and should be the first place you look for information about OpenStack.

http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-ops/openstack-ops-manual.pdf

OpenStack Architecture and Design Guide

Similary, the OpenStack Architecture and Design Guide is a great place to start reading about basic high level use-cases for OpenStack. This guide discusses the differences between several generic and specialized uses of OpenStack and is a great next step after reading through the Ops Guide.

http://docs.openstack.org/arch-design/



Keystone

OpenStack's authentication service is provided by Keystone and includes identity, token, catalog and policy services via the the Identity API.

OpenStack Summit Austin (2016)
https://youtu.be/Whd8eMpuc6o (Keystone v3, Single sign-on and Multi-domain)

Neutron 101

Neutron is OpenStack's networking module. This module enables software defined networking within OpenStack and integrates with a number of open source and proprietary products.

Intro to Neutron (Feb. 2016)
https://youtu.be/yqFpyubsYfE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYOC3xSzWf0 - NFV and SDN
https://youtu.be/Li0Ed1VEziQ

Nova 101

This is the module that makes compute nodes available within OpenStack. Nova originally had a networking component that is fading/has faded in favor of Neutron.
  
OpenStack Summit Tokyo (2015)
https://youtu.be/D2aoZs5zguE - Nova and NFV
https://youtu.be/Fsw-hjtQ8e4 - Nova scheduling challenges
 
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https://youtu.be/4oYtaNc_35I

Swift 101

Swift was the original object store in OpenStack. Its APIs are AWS S3 compatible.
https://youtu.be/vAEU0Ld-GIU
https://youtu.be/5N5a_cgxotg
https://youtu.be/vX4rK4N3WK0 

Cinder 101

The storage front end that allows OpenStack to use various other open source storage platforms such as Ceph and Gluster as well as other proprietary platforms such as NetApp and EMC.

OpenStack Summit Tokyo (2015)
https://youtu.be/BCzenT7uEBc
https://youtu.be/bntJAyI5gbk

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https://youtu.be/cNgqHqDcVho
https://youtu.be/HqAb-lwEyUc

Ceph 101

Inktank's product, Ceph, was designed to be a block and object storage product. It has become the defacto standard for storage within OpenStack.

OpenStack Summit Austin (2016)
https://youtu.be/xCSuQrMUBoA High performance Ceph clusters

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https://youtu.be/73w7JqU7lGM
https://youtu.be/wqo16zVS8U4
https://youtu.be/IDK_4O08Na4
https://youtu.be/d2No3yXrYJQ

Horizon 101

Much maligned, Horizon provides users with a basic self-service user interface from which users can create instances, volumes and networks. Dashboarding is relatively limited compared to other products on the market and some custom implementations.

OpenStack Summit Tokyo (2015)
https://youtu.be/Km99BCHfBdk

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https://youtu.be/0xpogjXCUr0
https://youtu.be/uumkhUo-7Y0

Heat 101

Heat is the orchestration module that automates the creation of instances, storage and networks. It works through Heat templates that script the parameters of each component (vCPU, vRAM, storage, network).

OpenStack Summit Tokyo (2015)
https://youtu.be/RzN-FVhDid4

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https://youtu.be/3WDPvxfXGmk
https://youtu.be/qmPZzdJq72k

Ceilometer 101

Metering and monitoring in OpenStack are enabled via Ceilometer which can be configured to draw on any of a number of metrics from OpenStack components.

OpenStack Summit Austin (2016)
https://youtu.be/BdebhsBFEJs (NFV; DPDK, collectd and Ceilometer)

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https://youtu.be/LCKAe7dbuOQ
https://youtu.be/VWL8o11zykk