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Provides Image Storage, Image retrieval, and image discovery services. These images are leveraged to launch instances(VMs) Leverage the Object Store “Swift” or other storage platforms including Amazon S3, filesystems and HTPP
to Amazon EBS Provides block storage functionality to instances running on Compute Recall that instances Block Storage provides Similar to compute, it has server sub-components: Cinder-api Cinder-volume Cinder-scheduler Leverages storage virtual drivers to inter with underlying platforms.
Allows the programmatic creation of (potentially complex per tenant networks) Uses a plug-in architecture; plugins exist for a number of different backend implementations including Nicira NVP, Open vSwitch(OVS), Linux Bridge, Cisco and others Has essentially replaced nova-network
a great tool for starting up openstack OpenStack is mostly written using Python Instances are are stateless, so configuration management is critical Openstack is linux-based, familiarity to linux is a must