About Rackspace Private Cloud Powered By Openstack#

Rackspace Private Cloud Powered By Openstack (RPCO) uses the Ansible IT automation framework to create an OpenStack cluster on the Ubuntu operating system. OpenStack components are installed into Linux Containers (LXC) for isolation, scalability, and ease of maintenance.

RPCO configuration#

Rackspace Private Cloud Powered By Openstack (RPCO) installs and manages OpenStack with the following services:

• Compute (nova)
• Object Storage (swift)
• Block Storage (cinder)
• Networking (neutron)
• Dashboard (horizon)
• Identity (keystone)
• Image service (glance)
• Orchestration (heat)

RPCO also provides the following infrastructure, monitoring, and logging services to support OpenStack:

• Galera with MariaDB
• RabbitMQ
• Memcached
• Rsyslog
• Logstash
• Elasticsearch with Kibana

Rackspace Private Cloud support#

Rackspace offers 24x7x365 support for Rackspace Private Cloud Powered By Openstack (RPCO). To learn about support for your cloud, or to take advantage of our training offerings, contact us at: opencloudinfo@rackspace.com.

You can also visit the RPCO community forums, which are open to all Rackspace Private Cloud users. They are moderated and maintained by Rackspace personnel and OpenStack specialists. See https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/45.

For more information about RPCO, visit the Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by OpenStack page and the Resources page on the Rackspace website.

For the very latest information about RPCO, see the Release Notes.