OpenStack Administrator Guide¶
Abstract¶
OpenStack offers open source software for OpenStack administrators to manage and troubleshoot an OpenStack cloud.
This guide documents OpenStack Ocata, Newton, and Mitaka releases.
Contents¶
- Conventions
- Get started with OpenStack
- Identity management
- Identity concepts
- Certificates for PKI
- Domain-specific configuration
- External authentication with Identity
- Integrate Identity with LDAP
- Keystone tokens
- Configure Identity service for token binding
- Fernet - Frequently Asked Questions
- Use trusts
- Caching layer
- Security compliance and PCI-DSS
- Example usage and Identity features
- Authentication middleware with user name and password
- Identity API protection with role-based access control (RBAC)
- Troubleshoot the Identity service
- Dashboard
- Customize and configure the Dashboard
- Set up session storage for the Dashboard
- Create and manage images
- Create and manage roles
- Manage projects and users
- Manage instances
- Manage flavors
- Manage volumes and volume types
- Manage shares and share types
- View and manage quotas
- View cloud resources
- Create and manage host aggregates
- Launch and manage stacks using the Dashboard
- Compute
- Object Storage
- Introduction to Object Storage
- Features and benefits
- Object Storage characteristics
- Components
- Ring-builder
- Cluster architecture
- Replication
- Large object support
- Object Auditor
- Erasure coding
- Account reaper
- Configure project-specific image locations with Object Storage
- Object Storage monitoring
- System administration for Object Storage
- Troubleshoot Object Storage
- Block Storage
- Shared File Systems
- Networking
- Introduction to Networking
- Networking architecture
- Plug-in configurations
- Configure neutron agents
- Configure Identity service for Networking
- Advanced configuration options
- Scalable and highly available DHCP agents
- Use Networking
- Advanced features through API extensions
- Advanced operational features
- Authentication and authorization
- Telemetry
- Database
- Bare Metal
- Orchestration
- OpenStack command-line clients
- Command-line client overview
- Install the OpenStack command-line clients
- Discover the version number for a client
- Set environment variables using the OpenStack RC file
- Manage projects, users, and roles
- Manage project security
- Manage services
- Manage images
- Manage volumes
- Manage shares
- Manage flavors
- Manage the OpenStack environment
- Manage quotas
- Analyze log files
- Manage Block Storage scheduling
- Cross-project features
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