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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.
About the Author
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.