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OpenStack Swift

Author : Joe Arnold

Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 40,56 MB

Release : 2014-10-16

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1491903872

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Book Description

Get up and running with OpenStack Swift, the free, open source solution for deploying high-performance object storage clusters at scale. In this practical guide, Joe Arnold, co-founder and CEO of SwiftStack, brings you up-to-speed on the basic concepts of object storage and walks you through what you need to know to plan, build, operate, and measure the performance of your own Swift storage system. Object storage is essential today with the growth of web, mobile, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. This book helps you through the process, with separate sections on application development, installation, administration, and troubleshooting. Learn Swift’s concepts for organizing, distributing, and serving data Explore basic and advanced features of the Swift RESTful API Delve into Swift’s many client libraries, including useful Python features Write middleware to customize and simplify your storage system Understand requirements for planning a Swift deployment—including your specific use case Learn options for coaxing the best performance from your cluster Get best practices for daily operations, such as monitoring and planning capacity additions Pick up techniques for testing and benchmarking your Swift cluster



OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials

Author : Amar Kapadia

Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 22,57 MB

Release : 2015-05-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 178528956X

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Book Description

If you are an IT administrator and you want to enter the world of cloud storage using OpenStack Swift, then this book is ideal for you. Basic knowledge of Linux and server technology is beneficial to get the most out of the book.



OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook

Author : Kevin Jackson

Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 16,49 MB

Release : 2015-08-19

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1782174656

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Book Description

Over 110 effective recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation About This Book Explore many new features of OpenStack's Juno and Kilo releases Install, configure, and administer core projects with the help of OpenStack Object Storage, Block Storage, and Neutron Networking services Harness the abilities of experienced OpenStack administrators and architects, and run your own private cloud successfully Practical, real-world examples of each service and an accompanying Vagrant environment that helps you learn quickly In Detail OpenStack Open Source software is one of the most used cloud infrastructures to support software development and big data analysis. It is developed by a thriving community of individual developers from around the globe and backed by most of the leading players in the cloud space today. It is simple to implement, massively scalable, and can store a large pool of data and networking resources. OpenStack has a strong ecosystem that helps you provision your cloud storage needs. Add OpenStack's enterprise features to reduce the cost of your business. This book will show you the steps to build up a private cloud environment. At the beginning, you'll discover the uses of cloud services such as the identity service, image service, and compute service. You'll dive into Neutron, the OpenStack Networking service, and get your hands dirty with configuring ML2, networks, routers, and Distributed Virtual Routers. You'll then gather more expert knowledge on OpenStack cloud computing by managing your cloud's security and migration. After that, we delve in to OpenStack Object storage and how to manage servers and work with objects, cluster, and storage functionalities. Also, as you go deeper into the realm of OpenStack, you'll learn practical examples of Block storage, LBaaS, and FWaaS: installation and configuration covered ground up. Finally, you will learn OpenStack dashboard, Ansible and Foreman, Keystone, and other interesting topics. What You Will Learn Understand, install, configure, and manage Nova—the OpenStack Cloud Compute resource Configure ML2, networks, routers, and Distributed Virtual Routers with Neutron Use and secure Keystone, the OpenStack Authentication service Install and set up Swift and Container Replication between datacenters Gain hands-on experience and familiarity with Horizon, the OpenStack Dashboard user interface Automate complete solutions with our recipes on Heat, the OpenStack Orchestration service Use Ansible and Foreman to automate OpenStack installations successfully Follow practical advice and examples to run OpenStack in production Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at cloud system engineers, system administrators, and technical architects who are moving from a virtualized environment to cloud environments. This book assumes that you are familiar with cloud computing platforms, and have knowledge of virtualization, networking, and managing Linux environments. Style and approach Clear, step-by-step instructions coupled with practical and applicable recipes that'll enable you to use and implement the latest features of OpenStack.



Mastering OpenStack

Author : Omar Khedher

Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 28,20 MB

Release : 2015-07-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1784397210

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Book Description

This comprehensive guide will help you to choose the right practical option and make strategic decisions about the OpenStack cloud environment to fit your infrastructure in production. At the start, this book will explain the OpenStack core architecture. You will soon be shown how to create your own OpenStack private cloud. Next, you will move on to cover the key security layer and network troubleshooting skills, along with some advanced networking features. Finally, you will gain experience of centralizing and logging OpenStack. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs. By the end of this book, you will be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.



Learning Swift

Author : Andrew J Wagner

Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 48,73 MB

Release : 2015-06-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1784399620

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Book Description

Swift is Apple's new programming language and the future of iOS and OS X app development. At its surface, Swift is easy to jump into, but it has complex elements that are critical to becoming proficient at turning an idea into reality. Develop the skills and confidence to dive passionately into creating compelling, maintainable, and elegant apps in Swift. This book provides an approachable, step-by-step introduction into programming with Swift. Each topic is separated into comprehensive sections that are full of practical examples and easy-to-understand explanations. Each section builds on the previous topics to develop a comprehensive understanding of app development in Swift. It begins by giving an overview of the key features with practical examples and progresses to more advanced topics that help differentiate the skillful developers from the mediocre ones. It covers topics, such as variables, optionals, closures, generics, and memory management. In addition, this book also covers the art of programming, such as maintainability, useful design patterns, and resources for furthering your knowledge. This all culminates in writing a basic iOS app that will get you well on your way to turning your own app ideas into a reality.



OpenStack Operations Guide

Author : Tom Fifield

Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Page : 383 pages

File Size : 16,84 MB

Release : 2014-04-24

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1491906294

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Book Description

Design, deploy, and maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), using the open source OpenStack platform. In this practical guide, experienced developers and OpenStack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures, as well as how to perform daily administration tasks. Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud by integrating several technologies. This approach provides flexibility, but knowing which options to use can be bewildering. Once you complete this book, you’ll know the right questions to ask while you organize compute, storage, and networking resources. If you already know how to manage multiple Ubuntu machines and maintain MySQL, you’re ready to: Set up automated deployment and configuration Design a single-node cloud controller Use metrics to improve scalability Explore compute nodes, network design, and storage Install OpenStack packages Use an example architecture to help simplify decision-making Build a working environment to explore an IaaS cloud Manage users, projects, and quotas Tackle maintenance, debugging, and network troubleshooting Monitor, log, backup, and restore



Production Ready OpenStack - Recipes for Successful Environments

Author : Arthur Berezin

Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 49,53 MB

Release : 2015-10-12

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1783986913

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Over 90 practical and highly applicable recipes to successfully deploy various OpenStack configurations in production About This Book Get a deep understanding of OpenStack's internal structure and services Learn real-world examples on how to build and configure various production grade use cases for each of OpenStack's services Use a step-by-step approach to install and configure OpenStack's services to provide Compute, Storage, and Networking as a services for cloud workloads Who This Book Is For If you have a basic understanding of Linux and Cloud computing and want to learn about configurations that OpenStack supports, this is the book for you. Knowledge of virtualization and managing Linux environments is expected. Prior knowledge or experience of OpenStack is not required, although beneficial. What You Will Learn Plan an installation of OpenStack with a basic configuration Deploy OpenStack in a highly available configuration Configure Keystone Identity services with multiple types of identity backends Configure Glance Image Store with File, NFS, Swift, or Ceph image backends and use local image caching Design Cinder to use a single storage provider such as LVM, Ceph, and NFS backends, or to use multiple storage backends simultaneously Manage and configure the OpenStack networking backend Configure OpenStack's compute hypervisor and the instance scheduling mechanism Build and customize the OpenStack dashboard In Detail OpenStack is the most popular open source cloud platform used by organizations building internal private clouds and by public cloud providers. OpenStack is designed in a fully distributed architecture to provide Infrastructure as a Service, allowing us to maintain a massively scalable cloud infrastructure. OpenStack is developed by a vibrant community of open source developers who come from the largest software companies in the world. The book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the multiple uses cases and configurations that OpenStack supports. This book simplifies the learning process by guiding you through how to install OpenStack in a single controller configuration. The book goes deeper into deploying OpenStack in a highly available configuration. You'll then configure Keystone Identity Services using LDAP, Active Directory, or the MySQL identity provider and configure a caching layer and SSL. After that, you will configure storage back-end providers for Glance and Cinder, which will include Ceph, NFS, Swift, and local storage. Then you will configure the Neutron networking service with provider network VLANs, and tenant network VXLAN and GRE. Also, you will configure Nova's Hypervisor with KVM, and QEMU emulation, and you will configure Nova's scheduler filters and weights. Finally, you will configure Horizon to use Apache HTTPD and SSL, and you will customize the dashboard's appearance. Style and approach This book consists of clear, concise instructions coupled with practical and applicable recipes that will enable you to use and implement the latest features of OpenStack.



Cloud Object Storage as a Service: IBM Cloud Object Storage from Theory to Practice - For developers, IT architects and IT specialists

Author : Anil Patil

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 23,14 MB

Release : 2020-06-10

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738442453

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Book Description

The digital enterprise has resulted in an explosion of data, and data volumes are expected to grow in zettabyte scale in the next few years. This explosive growth is largely fueled by unstructured data, such as video, social media, photos, and text. IBM® Cloud Object Storage (previously known as Cleversafe®) provides organizations the flexibility, scalability, and simplicity required to store, manage, and access today's rapidly growing unstructured data. Cloud Object Storage (COS) provides access to your unstructured data via a self-service portal from anywhere in the world with RESTful APIs, including OpenStack Swift API and S3-compatible API, enterprise availability, and security. IBM COS is available in the following deployment models: Private on-premises object storage Dedicated object storage (single-tenant) Public object storage (multi-tenant) Hybrid object storage (a mix of on-premises, dedicated or public offerings) This IBM Redbooks® publication focuses on the IBM COS public offering, IBM COS Public Services, and hybrid solutions leveraging this offering. This book is for solution developers, architects, and IT specialists who are implementing Cloud Object Storage solutions.



Implementing Cloud Storage with OpenStack Swift

Author : Amar Kapadia

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 33,9 MB

Release : 2014-05-17

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9781782168058

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Book Description

This tutorial-based book has a step-by-step approach for each topic, ensuring it is thoroughly covered and easy to follow. If you are an IT administrator who wants to enter the world of cloud storage using OpenStack Swift, then this book is ideal for you. Whether your job is to build, manage, or use OpenStack Swift, this book is an ideal way to move your career ahead. Only basic Linux and server technology skills are expected, to take advantage of this book.



Amazon S3 Essentials

Author : Sunil Gulabani

Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 31,85 MB

Release : 2015-11-03

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1783554908

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Book Description

Get started with Amazon S3 for virtually unlimited cloud and Internet storage About This Book Familiarize yourself with the concepts of Amazon S3 Understand basic operations of bucket, folders, and objects using Amazon S3 SDK Java Leverage the power of Amazon S3 to effectively store and retrieve data Who This Book Is For This book is intended for System Engineers/ Developers, Software Architects, Project managers, and users who want to explore Amazon S3 SDK Java. If you want to learn about Amazon S3 quickly, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Java programming is expected. What You Will Learn Start with the basic concepts of Amazon S3 to get you going Use Copy Object and Multipart Copy Object for objects of different sizes Understand how to use the amazon management console for Amazon S3 Learn how to use the AWS SDK of Java and consume the Amazon S3 Get to grips with managing the bucket life cycle Configure CORS to share resources to a different domain Discover how to develop and deploy the static website on Amazon S3 using different services of Amazon In Detail Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, and highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. S3 is automatically web scalable and responds to the requirements of your application and traffic, and therefore offers a key element to help companies deal dynamically with any spike in traffic for their application (such as a free e-book offer). This book starts with the basics of the Amazon S3 and its features, and you will quickly get an understanding how to use the Amazon Management Console for Amazon S3 which is the simplest way to manage Amazon S3. Next, we will cover basic operations on bucket, folder, objects. Once the basic operations are understood, you will know how to use Amazon S3 using Java SDK. Following that, you will learn about Copy Objects and Multipart copy objects for large objects size. You will also learn to manage the life cycle of bucket and how to share resources to the different domain by configuring CORS. The book will then guide you through the development and deployment of a static website on Amazon S3 using different services of Amazon. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a scalable application using Amazon S3. Style and approach This fast-paced book is a pragmatic guide to writing Amazon S3 applications. Each chapter is blended beautifully with lucid concepts and pertinent examples.