unit 3

Question 1

Celiometer

Answer 1

• Telemetry service in OpenStack and a crucial component for monitoring utilisation of cloud infrastructure.
• Collects data on various aspects of system for billing purposes

Question 2

Sahara

big data processing

Answer 2

• This porject aims to provide users with means to provision data processing frameworks in OpenStack.
• Primary goal is to ease the process of scaling big data processing environments.
• Aim is to provision and manage Hadoop Clusters on OpenStack

Question 3

Heat

Answer 3

• Orchestration service in OpenStack
• Provides template based orchestration.
• A heat template describes the infrastructure for a cloud application.

Question 4

Ironic

Answer 4

• OpenStack project which provisions bare metal instead of virtual machines.
• The bare metal service manages hardware through remote management protocols: PXE and IPMI
• Preboot Execution Environment allows computers to be booted before deploying an OS in local offices.
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface is a remote hardware health monitoring protocol.

Question 5

Glance

Answer 5

• Glance Image services include registering and retrieving virtual images.
• Glance provides disk image mgmt and delivery services.
• It has a RESTful API that allows the retreival of the actual image

Question 6

Keystone

Answer 6

• OpenStack service that provides user authentication and authorization.
• Supports token based authentication.
• Provides identity and endpoint management:
  Identity component provides auth and auth
  Endpoint component catalogs other services

Question 7

Swift

Answer 7

• Provides support for storing and retreiving arbitrary data.
• Provides a system storage for large amounts of data accessible through http.
• Object storage is best used for static data ->media and vm images etc