As an OpenStack engineer, mastering the following 10 key areas will significantly enhance your ability to design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments effectively: Additionally, staying up-to-date with the latest releases, community discussions, and attending OpenStack conferences and meetups will help you stay informed about advancements in the platform and best practices from experienced practitioners. …
Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows you to define and manage your infrastructure resources declaratively, using configuration files. This is similar to Openstack Heat or AWS cloudformation. The OpenStack Terraform Operator extends Terraform’s functionality by providing integration with OpenStack-specific resources. That said, While OpenStack provides its own set of APIs and …
Once Openstack cloud is deployed, user/admin needs to perform some steps to conclude installation is successful and cloud is accessible. Let us walkthrough some of steps: Verify the API Verify the Web GUI (Horizon dashboard)
During the installation process, three primary playbooks are executed: By executing these three playbooks, the infrastructure and services required for an OpenStack environment are established. The details steps as below: Check the integrity of the configuration files. Ensure that all the files edited in the /etc/openstack_deploy directory are Ansible yaml compliant. And then run the playbooks …
