Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack
Purpose – Major public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure or Google, offer seamless experiences for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). With the emergence of the public cloud's vast usage, administrators must be able to have a reli...
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| author | Samuel Heuchert Bhaskar Prasad Rimal Martin Reisslein Yong Wang |
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| description | Purpose – Major public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure or Google, offer seamless experiences for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). With the emergence of the public cloud's vast usage, administrators must be able to have a reliable method to provide the seamless experience that a public cloud offers on a smaller scale, such as a private cloud. When a smaller deployment or a private cloud is needed, OpenStack can meet the goals without increasing cost or sacrificing data control. Design/methodology/approach – To demonstrate these enablement goals of resiliency and elasticity in IaaS and PaaS, the authors design a private distributed system cloud platform using OpenStack and its core services of Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Horizon and Glance on a five-node deployment. Findings – Through the demonstration of dynamically adding an IaaS node, pushing the deployment to its physical and logical limits, and eventually crashing the deployment, this paper shows how the PackStack utility facilitates the provisioning of an elastic and resilient OpenStack-based IaaS platform that can be used in production if the deployment is kept within designated boundaries. Originality/value – The authors adopt the multinode-capable PackStack utility in favor of an all-in-one OpenStack build for a true demonstration of resiliency, elasticity and scalability in a small-scale IaaS. An all-in-one deployment is generally used for proof-of-concept deployments and is not easily scaled in production across multiple nodes. The authors demonstrate that combining PackStack with the multi-node design is suitable for smaller-scale production IaaS and PaaS deployments. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-82cd8127d4c2445ca6b3a95c5ef955982025-01-28T12:19:18ZengEmerald PublishingApplied Computing and Informatics2634-19642210-83272025-01-01211/216418310.1108/ACI-04-2021-0094Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStackSamuel Heuchert0Bhaskar Prasad Rimal1Martin Reisslein2Yong Wang3Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota, USAThe Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota, USASchool of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USAThe Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota, USAPurpose – Major public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure or Google, offer seamless experiences for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). With the emergence of the public cloud's vast usage, administrators must be able to have a reliable method to provide the seamless experience that a public cloud offers on a smaller scale, such as a private cloud. When a smaller deployment or a private cloud is needed, OpenStack can meet the goals without increasing cost or sacrificing data control. Design/methodology/approach – To demonstrate these enablement goals of resiliency and elasticity in IaaS and PaaS, the authors design a private distributed system cloud platform using OpenStack and its core services of Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Horizon and Glance on a five-node deployment. Findings – Through the demonstration of dynamically adding an IaaS node, pushing the deployment to its physical and logical limits, and eventually crashing the deployment, this paper shows how the PackStack utility facilitates the provisioning of an elastic and resilient OpenStack-based IaaS platform that can be used in production if the deployment is kept within designated boundaries. Originality/value – The authors adopt the multinode-capable PackStack utility in favor of an all-in-one OpenStack build for a true demonstration of resiliency, elasticity and scalability in a small-scale IaaS. An all-in-one deployment is generally used for proof-of-concept deployments and is not easily scaled in production across multiple nodes. The authors demonstrate that combining PackStack with the multi-node design is suitable for smaller-scale production IaaS and PaaS deployments.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ACI-04-2021-0094/full/pdfBusiness enablementCloud computingDistributed systemsHigh availabilityOpenStackScalability |
| spellingShingle | Samuel Heuchert Bhaskar Prasad Rimal Martin Reisslein Yong Wang Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack Applied Computing and Informatics Business enablement Cloud computing Distributed systems High availability OpenStack Scalability |
| title | Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack |
| title_full | Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack |
| title_fullStr | Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack |
| title_short | Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack |
| title_sort | design of a small scale and failure resistant iaas cloud using openstack |
| topic | Business enablement Cloud computing Distributed systems High availability OpenStack Scalability |
| url | https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ACI-04-2021-0094/full/pdf |
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