OpenStack Training in Chennai

OpenStack, a set of tools developed with an aim to provide cloud services and used for building and managing cloud computing platforms for both public and private clouds. It lets the user to deploy virtual machines and others that allows to perform tasks of managing a cloud environment. This OpenStack is maintained and managed by OpenStack Foundation which takes care of development and community-building for the project. The set of software tools and components in OpenStack are open source projects. The OpenStack falls in Infrastructure as a Service category and it is used to easily create a new instance on which other cloud components can run. As mentioned before OpenStack is an open source software which thus implies we can access the source code, make changes to it according to our need.

The key components of OpenStack are nova, swift, cinder, neutron, horizon, keystone, glance, ceilometer and heat. Nova being the primary computing engine and used for deploying virtual machines and managing them. Swift is for storage and we can store our objects and files in Swift. Cinder on the other hand is a block storage component allows used to access specific locations on the drive. Neutron gives networking capability and makes sure that the communication between each components of OpenStack is quick and efficient. Horizon is the dashboard which gives the system administrators an overview of what is happening on the cloud and manage it as when needed. Keystone is used for identity services and this has a list of users mapped to the permissions they have for services provided by the cloud. Glance is used to manage the images of hard disks that can be used as a template to deploy virtual machine instances. Ceilometer is the one that gives the billing details to individual users of the cloud and also the usage report. Heat helps to manage the infrastructure needs of a cloud service to run. Contact us or chat with our representatives to get a deep understanding of the best OpenStack Training in Chennai and schedule a demo class to experience our training before you decide.