Chapter 7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Configuring Cinder volume services
- Creating volumes
- Attaching volumes to an instance
- Detaching volumes from an instance
- Deleting volumes
- Working with volume snapshots
- Configuring volume types
- Enabling volume encryption
- Configuring volume Quality of Service (QoS)
- Resetting volume state
Introduction
When a basic compute instance is launched, where the instance data resides on the compute host's disks for the duration of the running instance, the data written to it is not persistent after termination—meaning that any data saved on the disk will be lost when a user requests to destroy that instance. There is a solution for this in OpenStack. Volumes are persistent ...
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