The Complete Guide to Building Enterprise Private Clouds with OpenShift, OpenStack, and Ceph
Transform your data center into a powerful private cloud with this comprehensive guide to Red Hat's enterprise stack. Learn how to deploy OpenShift for container orchestration, integrate OpenStack for VM workloads, and implement Ceph for unified storage—all on a single lab host. Through 10 hands-on chapters, you'll build a production-ready hybrid cloud from scratch, complete with security hardening, performance optimization, and GitOps automation, backed by real-world case studies and battle-tested configurations.
The author is letting you choose the price you pay for this book!
Transform your data center into a powerful private cloud with this comprehensive guide to Red Hat's enterprise stack. Learn how to deploy OpenShift for container orchestration, integrate OpenStack for VM workloads, and implement Ceph for unified storage—all on a single lab host. Through 10 hands-on chapters, you'll build a production-ready hybrid cloud from scratch, complete with security hardening, performance optimization, and GitOps automation, backed by real-world case studies and battle-tested configurations.
About the Book
Master the art of building enterprise-grade private clouds with Red Hat's integrated technology stack. This comprehensive 336-page guide takes you from zero to production-ready hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenShift, OpenStack, and Ceph Storage.
Whether you're a system administrator taking your first steps into cloud infrastructure or an experienced architect designing enterprise solutions, this book provides the practical knowledge you need. Through hands-on labs, real-world case studies, and production-tested configurations, you'll build a complete on-premise cloud environment on a single host.
What You'll Learn:
- Deploy OpenShift 4.19 for container orchestration
- Integrate Red Hat OpenStack Services (RHOSO) for VM workloads
- Implement Ceph distributed storage for both platforms
- Secure your infrastructure with Red Hat IdM
- Optimize performance and troubleshoot issues
- Scale clusters to meet growing demands
- Automate deployments with GitOps and Argo CD
Key Features:
- Complete lab environment setup requiring just one physical host
- Step-by-step instructions with actual commands and configurations
- Real-world case studies including performance troubleshooting
- Production-ready security and monitoring configurations
- GitOps automation patterns for enterprise deployments
- Companion GitHub repository with all scripts and configurations
Perfect for organizations looking to reduce cloud costs, maintain data sovereignty, or build hybrid cloud capabilities while leveraging Red Hat's enterprise-grade ecosystem.
Pick Your Price...
Minimum price
$29.00
$39.00
About the Author
BEKROUNDJO Akoley Aristide
Akoley Aristide Bekroundjo is a Cloud Architect, trainer, and founder of EC INTELLIGENCE, a company dedicated to helping enterprises build modern IT infrastructures. With more than a decade of hands-on experience, he has designed and deployed Proxmox, Ceph, OpenStack, and OpenShift clusters for organizations across Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Aristide has also delivered professional training to hundreds of engineers, administrators, and architects, bridging the gap between open-source innovation and enterprise-class requirements. His mission is to make high-availability, scalable, and secure infrastructures accessible to companies of all sizes.
When he is not teaching or architecting complex environments, he shares his insights through books, articles, and technical videos, always aiming to translate advanced concepts into clear, actionable knowledge.
Table of Contents
336 pages • 10 chapters • Complete lab exercises • GitHub repository included
Click the buttons to get the free sample in PDF or EPUB, or read the sample online here
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.
You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?
See full terms...
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earned over $14 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!
Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.
Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.
