Summary

Crossing the finish line does feel nice for sure. I hope that the raw power of what containers can offer you will inspire you to start deploying them on your OpenStack clouds. It always feels good to have options outside of the traditional VM's and instances.

Before concluding this chapter, let's take a moment to recap this chapter. We started the chapter with exploring the concept of Containerization and why it has become so very popular. You learned how to use Ansible Container to create our very first container image and build. We reviewed the kargo project that enables you to deploy Kubernetes using Ansible on multiple cloud platforms, including OpenStack. Next we demonstrated how to use Ansible to manage CoreOS running a Docker cluster on OpenStack. Lastly, we reviewed the configuration changes needed to deploy LXD with the openstack-ansible project.

The next chapter will also be a very interesting one because as a cloud operator you will eventually have to think about scaling...