Planning to deploy andmaintain a public, private, or hybrid cloud service? This cookbook’s handyhow-to recipes help you quickly learn and install Apache CloudStack, along withseveral API clients, API wrappers, data architectures, and configurationmanagement technologies that work as part of CloudStack’s ecosystem. You’ll learn how touse Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Fluentd, Libcloud, and several other open sourcetools that let you build and operate CloudStack better and faster. If you’re anexperienced programmer, system administrator, or DevOps practitioner familiarwith bash, Git, package management, and some Python, you’re ready to go. Learn basic CloudStackinstallation from source, including features such as DevCloud, the CloudStacksandbox Get a step-by-stepguide for installing CloudStack from packages on Ubuntu 14.04 using KVM Write your ownapplications on top of the CloudStack API, using CloudMonkey, Libcloud, jclouds,and CloStack Expose different APIson CloudStack with the EC2Stack, Boto, and Eutester API wrappers Deploy applicationseasily, using Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Chef, and Vagrant Dive into cloudmonitoring and storage with RiakCS, Fluentd, and Apache Whirr