Chapter 4. Customizing Your Clouds Quotas

Now that we have tackled creating our first OpenStack administration playbook, it is time to progress onto our next task. The next task we will cover is how to customize the project quotas in your cloud. This is normally the next step in the process of setting up new projects/tenants for your cloud consumers. We will step through how one would manually do this first and then transition into creating a playbook with roles to fully automate it:

  • Defining and creating quotas
  • Automation considerations
  • Coding the playbook and roles
  • Playbook and role review

Defining and creating quotas

What are quotas? Within OpenStack, you can set quotas on a tenant/project or user level in order to restrict the resource consumption ...

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