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OpenStack for Architects

You're reading from   OpenStack for Architects Design production-ready private cloud infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624510
Length 256 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Solberg Michael Solberg
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Ben Silverman Ben Silverman
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing OpenStack 2. Architecting the Cloud FREE CHAPTER 3. Planning for Failure and Success 4. Building the Deployment Pipeline 5. Building to Operate 6. Integrating the Platform 7. Securing the Cloud 8. OpenStack Use Cases 9. Containers 10. Conclusion 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Dealing with Infrastructure as a Software

A Vice President of Infrastructure at a large company once told us something like this, I like hardware. My hardware hardly ever breaks. The software I deploy breaks all the time. When my data center becomes software, how will I ever have a stable platform? Although the same concern could (and probably should) have once been applied to virtualization, most organizations today are very comfortable with the idea of software pretending to be hardware. The software-defined data center is something a little more intimidating though. Although we've had software pretending to be a CPU for a long time, we've only had software pretending to be a storage array relatively recently. Also, when the storage array goes down, everything tends to come down with it.

However, maybe the bigger question is around software constantly breaking...

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