Drafting an initial deployment plan

OpenStack is designed to be used at scale. Many IT projects might comprise a few physical assets deployed within an existing network, storage, and compute landscape, but OpenStack deployments are, by definition, new network, storage, and compute landscapes. Any project of this size and scope requires significant coordination between different teams within an IT organization. This kind of coordination requires careful planning and, in our experience, a lot of documentation.

The role of the Architect

This book is written to provide best practices for a relatively new role within many organizations-the Cloud Architect. The Cloud Architect's primary function is to take business requirements for Infrastructure or Platform ...

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