In this chapter, we were introduced to orchestrators, both commercial and FOSS. At a very high level, we looked at the differences between these two types of orchestrators and the appropriate use cases for OpenStack. We also looked at the basic building blocks of a private cloud and their correlation in the OpenStack world. We looked at the OpenStack architecture and services. And finally, we covered the lab setup that would be required to learn the deployment of your private cloud using OpenStack.

We start our journey in the next chapter by learning to install and configure the common components that form the basis of most of the OpenStack services. The key topic covered, however, would be installation and configuration of Keystone, which is the core authentication and authorization service of OpenStack