Cloud management
Get into the nitty-gritty of cloud computing to understand how resources are provisioned, billed, and monitored. Learn about how to orchestrate cloud infrastructure with examples.
Learning objectives
In this module, you will:
- Recall the various features provided by cloud middleware
- Describe the resource provisioning process from the context of a cloud service provider
- Recall the issues related to resource metering for cloud service providers
- Describe the metering architecture in OpenStack's Ceilometer
- Recall the concept of cloud orchestration and enumerate its benefits
- Recall the service components of OpenStack and identify their individual functions
In partnership with Dr. Majd Sakr and Carnegie Mellon University.
Prerequisites
- Understand what cloud computing is, including cloud service models, and common cloud providers
- Know the technologies that enable cloud computing
- Understand how cloud service providers pay for and bill for the cloud
- Know what datacenters are and why they exist
- Know how datacenters are set up, powered, and provisioned