In my opinion it's Missing a chapter on ceilometer and monitoring

If you want to use this book to explorer OpenStack for the first time, I have a few pieces of advice to you.

1. Don't waste your time on Devstack. You may end up encountering multiple stumbling blocks that will take you nowhere after all. You may want to dive into multi-node deployment by entirely skipping Devstack. Start with Chapter 4 for example.

2. Buy a commodity barebone server with a plenty of RAM, say, 20GB+, and an SSD.

3. Deploy OpenStack nodes as VirtualBox VMs. Find online resources to learn how. I suggest that you use VirtualBox 5.0 instead of 5.1+.

4. The host OS can be Ubuntu16 LTS, but try sticking with 14 LTS for the OpenStack nodes at least the first time around.

Some typos are inevitable with any IT book, and this book is no exception. However, struggles and trials&errors are what make us engineers truly good, right? So I don't necessarily consider the errors evil. Also some feature changes in OpenStack components' default settings since the release of the book, for example, will force you to troubleshoot to find out why some things don't work straight the way you expected. Just persist until things start working, and your effort will be well rewarded...I believe.

This book is really good. If you are into OpenStack, DevOps and Cloud you should read it.

The target for this book is sysadmins, developers and architects working in Cloud environments. The main topic is OpenStack but it explores another systems and solutions related to its ecosystem.

You will find the right information to understand, deploy and operate an OpenStack solution. The level of defail goes to the command line interface although it includes the proper graphical tools and dashboards to achieve the same results.

The author does a good and progressive job to introduce the different topics with each new chapter. You don't need to read the chapters in order but I would recommend.

If you are a newcomer to OpenStack you will enjoy the second chapter where the author introduces DevStack. It provides the right testbed to follow the whole material and/or test all commands and ideas along the book.

The compute, networking and storage blocks are covered in detail. The book explains how you can configure and set the major services related to these componentes (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, etc) in OpenStack but it also explains how they interoperate and the technologies supporting them (kernel namespaces, OVS, LVM, etc)

Another strong point in the book is the way how the author covers colateral technologies required to go to production. In this field, he explains what approach is good enough to go in production but he highlights the limitations while providing alternatives (Ceph, Fuel, etc)

Related to graphics, pictures and diagrams. They are all in place. I found them clear and concise.

I would say this book contains an extensive effort to cover OpenStack and related technology. Great book.

This book is a great resource for anyone new to Openstack. I'm in the process of setting up an Openstack environment for my company's web developers. I have worked with various virtual systems for 15+ years and yet Openstack was very daunting and somewhat confusing for me. This book brings a lot of clarity. Openstack is growing and changing so fast you need an up-to-date book such as this one to get started on the right foot. The book steps you through basic concepts and gives you concrete examples of how to get an environment up and running.

Working through the examples in the book I have discovered a few command-line errors. I've been able to work my way through most of them and would like to give feedback to the author and publisher, but I have not been able to find contact info for submitting feedback. For example in Chapter 5 listing 5.15 GRANT ALL ON keystone_dbu.* TO 'keystone'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openstack1'; should be

GRANT ALL ON keystone* TO 'keystone_dbu'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openstack1'; This is a very unfortunate place to have an error because it is the beginning of configuring the keystone database and service which is key to getting everything to work.

In his book, OpenStack in Action, Cody Bumgardner does an excellent job ensuring no one is left out. By covering the history, versions and project details Cody makes it easy for folks coming from various IT backgrounds to grasp the concepts of OpenStack. In the test drive section Cody provides an easy to follow method for getting the bare bones up and running in order for the reader to start playing with OpenStack. And his extensive coverage of building a production OpenStack environment paints a full picture of things to consider when operating business critical applications on an OpenStack deployment.

OpenStack in Action is exactly what it says... and swiftly get's right to the "Action" part.

You'll find it brings you up to speed quickly and doesn't insult your intelligence.

Once you've found that your ready to get real - Chapter 9 alone is worth the price of admission. A walkthru to building out your own recipe for a production rollout.

You can tell he's been-there-done-that.

This is the best book I have found on actually using OpenStack. Most other books explain what OpenStack is. This is one book that goes beyond that and will guide you, like a cookbook, to deploying a real working stack!

This book was very helpful understanding OpenStack in complex world of cloud computing and constant changes. Very eye opening

Low level printing quality disaster copy from Poland but book is GOOD

I bought the book to understand the architecture , design principles and concepts of openstack. In that respect, the book is not useful to me. Rather it feels like a Print-out of a very verbose ReadMe page with pictures and step by step instructions on using various components of openstack.

So: it depends what you need it for. It may well be useful for getting started hands on with a private cloud for the first time and the book really doesn’t assume any cloud knowledge . It even tells you how to install git so you can clone a repo.

The reason for my rating is that I have quite a few Manning books and all of them are rather advanced. So this came as a surprise, but to be fair it does say so on the back cover.

If youre a sys admin and have no previous knowledge: this book may be quite helpful

If youre an architect or experienced cloud engineer or SRE: there is really not a lot wrt concepts. The openstack online docs will probably be more useful ( and up to date).