SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8
OpenStack Administrator Guide #
OpenStack offers open source software for OpenStack administrators to manage and troubleshoot an OpenStack cloud.
This guide documents OpenStack Newton and Mitaka releases.
Publication Date: 02 Nov 2022
- 1 Documentation Conventions
- 2 Get started with OpenStack
- 3 Identity management
- 3.1 Identity concepts
- 3.2 Certificates for PKI
- 3.3 Domain-specific configuration
- 3.4 External authentication with Identity
- 3.5 Integrate Identity with LDAP
- 3.6 Keystone tokens
- 3.7 Configure Identity service for token binding
- 3.8 Fernet - Frequently Asked Questions
- 3.9 Use trusts
- 3.10 Caching layer
- 3.11 Security compliance and PCI-DSS
- 3.12 Example usage and Identity features
- 3.13 Authentication middleware with user name and password
- 3.14 Identity API protection with role-based access control (RBAC)
- 3.15 Troubleshoot the Identity service
- 4 Dashboard
- 4.1 Customize and configure the Dashboard
- 4.2 Set up session storage for the Dashboard
- 4.3 Create and manage images
- 4.4 Create and manage roles
- 4.5 Manage instances
- 4.6 Manage flavors
- 4.7 Manage volumes and volume types
- 4.8 Manage shares and share types
- 4.9 View and manage quotas
- 4.10 View cloud resources
- 4.11 Create and manage host aggregates
- 4.12 Launch and manage stacks using the Dashboard
- 5 Compute
- 6 Object Storage
- 6.1 Introduction to Object Storage
- 6.2 Features and benefits
- 6.3 Object Storage characteristics
- 6.4 Components
- 6.5 Ring-builder
- 6.6 Cluster architecture
- 6.7 Replication
- 6.8 Large object support
- 6.9 Object Auditor
- 6.10 Erasure coding
- 6.11 Account reaper
- 6.12 Configure project-specific image locations with Object Storage
- 6.13 Object Storage monitoring
- 6.14 System administration for Object Storage
- 6.15 Troubleshoot Object Storage
- 7 Block Storage
- 8 Shared File Systems
- 9 Networking
- 9.1 Introduction to Networking
- 9.2 Networking architecture
- 9.3 Plug-in configurations
- 9.4 Configure neutron agents
- 9.5 Configure Identity service for Networking
- 9.6 Advanced configuration options
- 9.7 Scalable and highly available DHCP agents
- 9.8 Use Networking
- 9.9 Advanced features through API extensions
- 9.10 Advanced operational features
- 9.11 Authentication and authorization
- 10 Telemetry
- 11 Database
- 12 Bare Metal
- 13 Orchestration
- 14 OpenStack command-line clients
- 14.1 Command-line client overview
- 14.2 Install the OpenStack command-line clients
- 14.3 Discover the version number for a client
- 14.4 Set environment variables using the OpenStack RC file
- 14.5 Manage projects, users, and roles
- 14.6 Manage project security
- 14.7 Manage services
- 14.8 Manage images
- 14.9 Manage volumes
- 14.10 Manage shares
- 14.11 Manage flavors
- 14.12 Manage the OpenStack environment
- 14.13 Manage quotas
- 14.14 Analyze log files
- 14.15 Manage Block Storage scheduling
- 15 Cross-project features
- 16 Appendix
- Glossary
List of Figures
List of Tables
- 2.1 OpenStack Services
- 2.2 Storage types
- 5.1 Description of IPv6 configuration options
- 5.2 Description of metadata configuration options
- 5.3 openstack volume commands
- 5.4 rootwrap.conf configuration options
- 5.5 Filters configuration options
- 5.6 openstack compute service list
- 5.7 Description of SPICE configuration options
- 5.8 Description of VNC configuration options
- 5.9 Description of trusted computing configuration options
- 6.1 Description of configuration options for [drive-audit] in drive-audit.conf
- 9.1 nova.conf API and credential settings prior to Mitaka
- 9.2 nova.conf API and credential settings in Newton
- 9.3 Provider network attributes
- 9.4 Basic L3 Operations
- 9.5 Basic security group operations
- 9.6 Basic VMware NSX QoS operations
- 9.7 Configuration options for tuning operational status synchronization in the NSX plug-in
- 9.8 Big Switch Router rule attributes
- 9.9 Basic L3 operations
- 12.1 local_link_connection fields
- 14.1 OpenStack services and clients
- 14.2 OpenStack command-line clients prerequisites
- 14.3 Disk and CD-ROM bus model values
- 14.4 VIF model values
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