Chapter 1. An Introduction to OpenStack

This chapter will serve as an overview of OpenStack and all the projects that make up this cloud platform. It is very important to lay a clear foundation of OpenStack, in order to describe the OpenStack components, concepts, and verbiage. Once the overview is covered, we will transition into discussing the core features and benefits of OpenStack. Lastly, the chapter will finish up with two working examples of how you can consume the OpenStack services via the application program interface (API) and command-line interface (CLI). In this chapter, we will cover the following points:

• OpenStack overview
• Reviewing the OpenStack services
• OpenStack supporting components
• The features and benefits
• Working examples: listing the services and endpoints