Chapter 7. Your OpenStack Cloud in Action

Finally, we are at the chapter towards which we were inching gradually in the previous chapters. In this chapter, we will put together all that we have set up and see a real life scenario of us being a cloud provider to, say, our internal development team. We will stitch everything together and see all the services we have set up in action, so without any further ado let's dive in.

To be specific, we will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Gathering service requirements
  • Managing your network
  • Requesting services
  • Creating VM templates

Gathering service requirements

We hope that you are ready to start pointing, clicking and typing commands, but before we do just that, let's create a scenario for which we ...

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