Chapter 4. Understanding private cloud building blocks
This chapter covers
- Understanding OpenStack core project interoperability
- Exploring the relationship between vendor hardware and OpenStack
- Learning from a manual OpenStack install
In chapter 1 you were introduced to OpenStack. You learned how OpenStack fits into the cloud ecosystem, reasons for adopting the technology, and the focus of this book. In chapter 2 you went from those high-level concepts directly into a hands-on test-drive of the OpenStack framework using DevStack. In chapter 3 you worked through some examples that you might encounter working as an OpenStack operator and gained further insight into the structure of the framework.
In this chapter, we’ll shift back to the high-level concepts. If the first chapter was to introduce and inform you, the second to get you excited about the technology, and the third to make you operationally comfortable, the fourth gives you a foundational understanding of what’s really going on inside the OpenStack framework.