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Designing cloud environments is a non-trivial task due to the overall complexity of data centers. The hardware, the network fabric, or even the whole data centre architecture has to be designed properly to ensure production-grade quality of the holistic solution. This is why the best recipe for a successful cloud deployment is to follow a proven design guide from an experienced and trusted partner.
Canonical OpenStack Reference Architecture distills Canonical’s expert knowledge gained through more than a decade of experience in the OpenStack domain. It is the product of hundreds of commercial engagements and thousands of deployed production clouds. By discussing some common design considerations the reference architecture for Canonical OpenStack helps cloud architects make right decisions with regards to their project.
Explore Canonical OpenStack Reference Architecture
Canonical OpenStack is one of the world’s leading enterprise OpenStack distributions. Trusted by executives, it’s been powering the IT infrastructure of organizations in every market sector, from governments through telcos to enterprises, for over a decade. By using an opinionated design, full bottom-up automation, and high-level abstraction, Canonical OpenStack (based on Sunbeam) has effectively democratized OpenStack and made it deployable by almost anyone in minutes.
What’s included:
- An overview of Canonical OpenStack (based on Sunbeam) software architecture
- Common design considerations, including network, service placement and scaling
- Hardware, network fabric, rack layout and data center design guidelines
- An overview of Canonical OpenStack (based on Sunbeam) deployment process