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.. index:: Introduction
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.. _User_Introduction:
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Introducing Fuel for OpenStack
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OpenStack is an extensible, versatile, and flexible cloud management
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platform. By exposing its portfolio of cloud infrastructure services –
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compute, storage, networking and other core resources — through ReST APIs,
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OpenStack enables a wide range of control over these services, both from the
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perspective of an integrated Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) controlled
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by applications, as well as automated manipulation of the infrastructure
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itself.
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This architectural flexibility doesn’t set itself up magically. It asks you,
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the user and cloud administrator, to organize and manage an extensive array
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of configuration options. Consequently, getting the most out of your
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OpenStack cloud over time – in terms of flexibility, scalability, and
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manageability – requires a thoughtful combination of complex configuration
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choices. This can be very time consuming and requires that you become
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familiar with much of the documentation from the number of different projects.
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Mirantis Fuel for OpenStack was created to eliminate exactly these problems.
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This step-by-step guide takes you through this process of:
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* Configuring OpenStack and its supporting components into a robust cloud
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architecture
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* Deploying that architecture through an effective, well-integrated automation
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package that sets up and maintains the components and their configurations
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* Providing access to a tested, integrated, and up-to-date set of components
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proven to work together
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Fuel for OpenStack can be used to create and support many popular OpenStack
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configurations. To make the process easier, the installation includes several
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pre-defined architectures. For the sake of simplicity, this guide emphasizes
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a single, common reference architecture; the multi-node, high-availability
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configuration. We begin with an explanation of this architecture, then move
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on to the details of creating the configuration in a test environment using
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VirtualBox. Finally, we provide you the information you need to know to create
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this and other OpenStack architectures in a production environment.
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