To get the most out of this book

To use this book, you will need access to computers or servers that have hardware virtualization capabilities. Familiarity of Linux and accessing Linux servers using SSH is expected.

To set up the lab environment described at the end of Chapter 1, Installing OpenStack with Ansible, you will need to install and use Oracle’s VirtualBox and Vagrant. You can access details of how to set up your computer using VirtualBox and Vagrant by visiting https://github.com/OpenStackCookbook/vagrant-openstack.

There are additional recipes to get you started with the lab environment available at http://www.openstackcookbook.com. Refer to this website for information on installation of supporting software such as MariaDB/MySQL. More ...

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