Introduction to Red Hat OpenStack

Goal

Describe the Red Hat OpenStack products and how they relate to other Red Hat products, partner products, upstream projects, and IT professional roles.

Introduction

This chapter presents the OpenStack open source project and the Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift product, so you understand how the current Red Hat OpenStack product is different from community OpenStack and previous releases of the Red Hat OpenStack platform.

This chapter also introduces two OpenStack user personas: the OpenStack Operator, which is the focus of this course, and the OpenStack Administrator, so you understand the scope of work, tooks, and skills required from OpenStack Operators to perform their daily jobs.