Finally, we are at the chapter towards which we were inching gradually in the previous chapters. In this chapter, we will put together all that we have set up and see a real life scenario of us being a cloud provider to, say, our internal development team. We will stitch everything together and see all the services we have set up in action, so without any further ado let's dive in.
To be specific, we will cover the following topics in this chapter:
We hope that you are ready to start pointing, clicking and typing commands, but before we do just that, let's create a scenario for which we will be providing services.
So, we are a part of the IT wing of a company whose core business is software development. The company wants to make its processes agile and speed up the time to market the products it has been developing, and so we have been tasked with providing a private cloud environment to the various development and testing teams.
We have successfully done that by setting up our OpenStack environment and we have our first customer at our door, who is a project manager for a new product that has been conceptualized. They need an environment where the developers can freely spin instances up and down.
So, we have to ask the following questions:
Of course, the actual capacity also needs to be available in order to perform these actions. The ones shown in the preceding screenshot are merely limits that the system will enforce and not allow the users to request over these limits.
So our fictitious project manager gives us the following information:
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)So, armed with the preceding information, we go on to take our cloud out for a spin.