What you need for this book

This book assumes a moderate level of Linux system administration and cloud computing concepts' experience. Though this book will walk you through some snippets of real-life production environment running OpenStack, some rudimentary knowledge of the OpenStack components may be required. In addition to this, a basic knowledge and understanding of networking jargon and connectional design is required. If you possess some Ruby programming skills, this is a plus. The book does not specify any specific test environment. Feel free to use any lab environment that you feel more comfortable with, such as Oracle's VirtualBox, Vagrant, or the VMware workstation.

This book requires you to install and run OpenStack on physical hardware ...

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