Cloud adoption has significantly increased using the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) paradigm, in order to meet the growing demands of computing, storage and networking, in small as well as large enterprises. Different vendors provide their customized solutions for OpenStack deployment on bare metal or virtual infrastructure. Among these many available IaaS solutions, OpenStack stands out as being an agile and open-source platform. However, its deployment procedure is a time-taking and complex process with a learning curve. This paper addresses the lack of basic infrastructure automation in almost all of the OpenStack deployment projects. We propose a flexible framework to automate the process of infrastructure bring up for deployment of several OpenStack distributions, as well as resolving dependencies for a successful deployment. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework in terms of automation status and deployment time, that is, reducing the time spent in preparing a basic virtual infrastructure by four times, on average.

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用于云服务部署的虚拟基础架构流程

为了满足小型企业和大型企业对计算，存储和网络不断增长的需求，使用基础架构即服务（IaaS）范式极大地提高了云采用率。不同的供应商针对裸机或虚拟基础架构上的OpenStack部署提供其定制的解决方案。在众多可用的IaaS解决方案中，OpenStack是敏捷且开源的平台。但是，其部署过程是耗时且复杂的过程，具有学习曲线。本文解决了几乎所有OpenStack部署项目中缺乏基本基础设施自动化的问题。我们提出了一个灵活的框架来自动化基础架构的流程，以启动多个OpenStack发行版的部署，并解决成功部署所依赖的问题。