Chapter 2. Deploying OpenStack – DevOps and OpenStack Dual Deal

Deploying an OpenStack environment based on the profiled design, as shown in the previous chapter, is not simple. Although we created our design by taking care of several aspects related to scalability and performance, we still have to make it real. If you are still looking at OpenStack as a single block system, you should take a step back and recheck what was explained in Chapter 1, Designing OpenStack Cloud Architecture.

Furthermore, in the introductory section of this book, we covered the role of OpenStack in the next generation of datacenters. The infrastructure has now become programmable through APIs. However, a large-scale infrastructure used by cloud providers needs a very different approach in order to set it up with a few thousand servers.

In our case, deploying and operating the OpenStack Cloud is not as simple as you might think. Thus, you need some fun. You need to make any operational task easier or, in other words, automated.

In this chapter, we will cover new topics about the ways to deploy OpenStack and start an excursion of the production day from which you will gain new best practices. The next part will cover the following points:

• Learning what the DevOps movement is and how it can be adopted in the cloud
• Knowing how to see your infrastructure as code and how to maintain it
• Getting closer to the DevOps way by including configuration management aspects in your cloud
• Making your OpenStack environment design deployable via automation
• Discovering and starting your first test deployment using Chef