OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes to Successfully Set Up and Manage Your Openstack Cloud Environments With Complete Coverage of Nova, Swift, Keystone, Glance and Horizon Paperback – September 30, 2012

this sort of book quickly gets out of date because openstack is under active development, and each release changes a few thingsstill, this book is only a few months old (as of April 2013) and it gives a good overview of the openstack environment running folsom and essex, with foreshadowing of grizzly features and how they change things.Kevin Jackson, the author, is online with a very helpful blog of cloud info as well as the VM installation scripts to build a virtualbox/vagrant hosted allinone folsom instance.If you want to stay up to date with openstack and want to get hints about how to install and support it, this will be a good book for you

This is a very good cookbook but probably shouldn’t be your first text on OpenStack.Just following the examples, you’ll be able to stand up an environment but may remain mystified by what you just did. Mr Jackson does give CLI examples with detailed explanations of their relative components but the larger context is missing. That or it’s assumed you know your way around.When I came back to the text after understanding the components better, I got a lot more out of it.

When i invest time and money in a book like this one I would expect the book to support improved understanding and concrete value that I can verify. Unfortunately the book simply repeats what can already be found on the Internet and in a similarly poor quality.This is not a book that helped me to actually implement a private cloud, it made me abandone OpenStack.

This book is a great starting point for all those who want to get under the hood of how OpenStack works without blowing their brains out. The review before me makes it clear, and I will echo this as well, it's not OpenStack for Dummies! You have to have a good understanding of Openstack and its components before you get this. I got this book because I was not getting far with the actual Documentation & Manuals Openstack provides themselves. I was running into too many bugs and errors with the actual manuals but with this book I flew through configurations and had instances up and running which was a great feeling because I hadn't done that with the actual Manuals.One thing I do wish this book went over more was the actual architecture and interaction between the cloud controller and compute nodes. I also wish it talked more about hardware installations instead of the VM and MaaS only. It's unfortunate that Quantum which is the new networking component of the OpenStack Project came out shortly after this book came out but I guess that would take the fun out of my work.Great book though and totally worth it. Only book out there on OpenStack that seems to be a good reference guide as well.

This is good if you want to create a single node VM for testing and take snapshots and play around, but this not going to help you troubleshoot more complex deployments.I'm still reading, but so far it's mostly a guided tour of the documentation, which is useful, but don't think this will help you optimize your 50 node config.Also Folsom is out so much of this book is already outdated. I feel sorry for the author with a product that's changing so rapidly.

I was looking for something that presented OpenStack is a more schematic / theoretical level. As the title implies, this text presents a bunch of different 'cookbook' approaches, most of which become outdated quickly. It's an OK read considering there isn't much competition in this space. I would stick to the official openstack docs online for someone looking for a deeper understanding of the various services that make up openstack.

i bought this book 3 months ago and can't go ahead from chapter 2, searching in blogs and related websites, i find comments to this book and about the lack of details....to be a cook book!! there some users have found errors and some are in the same state as i'm. Stoped!!

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook is one of these modern marvels when a person can acquire a book for mere $30 (or so) and build a career with it! Thanks Packt! And I assume one would get a very good living. These skills are very much in demand. So a big thank you to Kevin Jackson putting so much insight and effort into creating such a fantastic book. Indeed, the Cloud made quite a lot of buzz lately, and keeps doing so. With the prices per feature falling rapidly it is no longer a brainer Cloud's adoption is accelerating very fast. Luckily, it is very much possible to build an enterprise grade or even your own cloud (even on your own laptop!). The OSS community and many for-profit companies work day and night to make the Cloud more resilient, affordable and flexible. OpenStack is probably the most bolding one out of these. But it requires a good training as the aspects of creating and maintaining one may seem intimidating at the beginning. It is thus very advisable to get yourself equipped with a good companion as the OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook.So, first things first, the book most probably is not targeting newcomers to the Cloud field or recent grads, but I may be wrong. Be aware though that the book is quite dry and spends a lot of time settings various bleeding edge technical things up (on Ubuntu and some Windows OS). I state the reader should be familiar with some basic bash commands as awk and sed, networking concepts, database, virtualization and storage to rip full befits of the material covered. Another note is regarding the hardware, you would only be able to fully cover everything discussed in the book if you had a decent machine with plenty of storage and RAM. I did not see anywhere exact specs mentioned, but I imagine a MacBook Pro or a Ubuntu machine with 16 Gb or RAM and 500Gb of SSD/HDD free should do just fine.Those who have enough programming and/or administration skills under one's belt will be greatly rewarded from reading this book. At the same time this book is a good guide on how to maintain properly just any environment up. E.g. monitoring events, react to issues, troubleshoot, remedy storage mishaps, monitor queues and databases. Plus more. Everyone benefits.While reading this book, somewhere towards the chapter 12 Monitoring, right after "In the Datacenter" I started to realize thanks to this book, I now have a better understanding what is going on behind the scenes when I click on provision new cluster or allocate a new VM in the cloud as an end user. Total coolness!After finishing reading this book I am under an impression it must be bought both, in print and electronic forms. One should lay down on your desk because the last two chapters about the monitoring and troubleshooting would be the one you want to skim through first upon getting an issue to tackle. And the ebook should be on your mobile device (in case you get a trouble call or want to reply to an IRC message and need some reference), plus it allows easy copy-pasting into terminal or just in case you want a quick Ctrl-F (search) in your PDF reader for some information.Verdict, this is a hard to beat book in both quantity, quality and coverage, so a 5 out of 5 is warranted!