Ken Pepple 
Deploying OpenStack [PDF ebook] 
Creating Open Source Clouds

Open Stack was created with the audacious goal of being the ubiquitous software choice for building public and private cloud infrastructures. In just over a year, it’s become the most talked-about project in open source. This concise book introduces Open Stack’s general design and primary software components in detail, and shows you how to start using it to build cloud infrastructures.If you’re a developer, technologist, or system administrator familiar with cloud offerings such as Rackspace Cloud or Amazon Web Services, Deploying Open Stack shows you how to obtain and deploy Open Stack software in a few controlled scenarios.Learn about Open Stack Compute (known as Nova), Open Stack Object Store ("Swift"), and Open Stack Image Service ("Glance")Understand common pitfalls in architecting, deploying, and implementing your cloud infrastructure with Open Stack Determine which version of the Open Stack code base best suits your deployment needs Define your deployment scenario and finalize key design choices Install Nova on a single node with either the Stack Ops distro or an Ubuntu package Be familiar with important configuration options and important administrative commands