Open Stack

Hello Ken

As I was on the same boat as you, I'd like to share my thoughts with you

1. Its really not surprising that there are few books on OpenStack.
Openstack is going under rapid development. It takes a author
to dive into all the features of a particular version of OpenStack and
write about it. And by the time the book gets published
the content becomes outdated due to the faster development of OpenStack.
Cutting edge/Bleeding edge, Openstack is exactly
that is. The same goes for numerous 'how to' guides available on the
internet. They become outdated very quickly. So, you have to
do a lot of study and basically connect the dots. Expect a fair degree of
cuts and tears/frustrating moments as you go through
the learning process.

2. DevStack is good for home/lab install. But before going with that, I
would have a look at http://docs.openstack.org/ understand various
components of Openstack, how they work together etc etc and then get hands
dirty.

I went with RDO and had success standing up a 3 node setup (on single
physical machine, 3VM running under KVM ). You
can have a look at it as well (https://openstack.redhat.com/Main_Page).

hope this helps.

Best wishes on your journey.

regards,
Maruf


On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:

> Hi!  Long time Linux admin, who's finally decided that the cloud is real,
> and I'm just thankful that there's an OSS answer to AWS.  And now, it's
> time to get my feet wet.  Which leads me to two questions:
>
> 1) I'm really surprised by how few books I see on OpenStack -- especially
> at the introductory level -- and how tepid the reviews for the O'Reilly
> books are.  Is there favored documentation, either dead tree, or
> electronic, that I should be checking out?
>
> 2) I'd really like to set up a home install -- DevStack seems to be the
> way to fly since I don't exactly have a rack of systems lying around for my
> own personal use.  Is there a better approach I should be taking?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> -Ken
>
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