What you need for this book

This book assumes a basic level of understanding of cloud computing, the Linux operating system and containers. The book will guide you through the installation of any tools that are required.

You can use any tool for the test environment, such as Vagrant, Oracle's VirtualBox, or a VMware workstation.

In this book, the following software list is required:

• Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04
• OpenStack: Pike release or newer
• VirtualBox 4.5 or newer
• Vagrant 1.7 or newer

To run the OpenStack installation in a development environment, the following minimum hardware resources are required:

• A host machine with CPU hardware virtualization support
• 8 core CPU
• 12 GB RAM
• 60 GB free disk space

Internet connectivity is required to download the necessary packages for OpenStack and other tools.