Infrastructure as a Service in OpenStack

2018 COE Engineering Design Project (BM01)


Faculty Lab Coordinator

Bobby Ma

Topic Category

Networking

Preamble

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service in which tenant can create network and computing resources in the virtualization environment. OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform. Students in this project will design and implement a cloud computing environment using OpenStack. Once the Cloud computing system is operational, students will also investigate the concept of network virtualization.

Objective

This project aims to implement a operational cloud computing system using OpenStack. In addition, students will investigate the concept of network virtualization.

Partial Specifications

- The cloud computing system should include at least two physical computing devices (laptop/workstation) with two or more computing nodes, a control node and a network node.
- The system should also include the distributed virtual router feature.
- Tenants can access the cloud computing services online.

Suggested Approach

1. Study the literature on Cloud Computing, OpenStack and network virtualization technologies.
2. Implement a Cloud Computing system in the OpenStack platform.
3. Investigate the following network virtualization technologies: VXLAN, OpenVSwitch, Distributed Virtual router.

Group Responsibilities

It is expected that all the members of the group are involved all the aspect of the project.

Student A Responsibilities

Study and implement how to setup the cloud computing environment in the OpenStack platform. Investigate network virtualization technologies.

Student B Responsibilities

Study and implement how to setup the cloud computing environment in the OpenStack platform. Investigate network virtualization technologies.

Student C Responsibilities

Study and implement how to setup the cloud computing environment in the OpenStack platform. Investigate network virtualization technologies.

Course Co-requisites

COE768

 


BM01: Infrastructure as a Service in OpenStack | Bobby Ma | Thursday September 6th 2018 at 09:49 AM