OpenFlow Cookbook. Over 110 recipes to design and develop your own OpenFlow switch and OpenFlow controller

Kingston S Selvaraj, Kingston Smiler. S

openFrameworks Essentials. Create stunning, interactive openFrameworks-based applications with this fast-paced guide

Igor Tatarnikov, Denis Perevalov

OpenGL - Build high performance graphics. Assimilate the ideas shared in the course to utilize the power of OpenGL to perform a wide variety of tasks

William Lo, Muhammad Mobeen Movania, Raymond Chun Hing Lo

OpenGL is a fully functional, cross-platform API widely adopted across the industry for 2D and 3D graphics development. It is mainly used for game development and applications, but is equally popular in a vast variety of additional sectors. This practical course will help you gain proficiency with OpenGL and build compelling graphics for your games and applications. OpenGL Development Cookbook – This is your go-to guide to learn graphical programming techniques and implement 3D animations with OpenGL. This straight-talking Cookbook is perfect for intermediate C++ programmers who want to exploit the full potential of OpenGL. Full of practical techniques for implementing amazing computer graphics and visualizations using OpenGL. OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook, Second Edition – With Version 4, the language has been further refined to provide programmers with greater power and flexibility, with new stages such as tessellation and compute. OpenGL Shading Language 4 Cookbook is a practical guide that takes you from the fundamentals of programming with modern GLSL and OpenGL, through to advanced techniques.OpenGL Data Visualization Cookbook - This easy-to-follow, comprehensive Cookbook shows readers how to create a variety of real-time, interactive data visualization tools. Each topic is explained in a step-by-step format. A range of hot topics is included, including stereoscopic 3D rendering and data visualization on mobile/wearable platforms. By the end of this guide, you will be equipped with the essential skills to develop a wide range of impressive OpenGL-based applications for your unique data visualization needs.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products, OpenGL Development Cookbook by Muhammad Mobeen Movania, OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook, Second Edition by David Wolff, OpenGL Data Visualization Cookbook by Raymond C. H. Lo, William C. Y. Lo

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook. Acquiring the skills of OpenGL Shading Language is so much easier with this cookbook. You'll be creating graphics rather than learning theory, gaining a high level of capability in modern 3D programming along the way. - Second Edition

David Wolff

OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) is a programming language used for customizing parts of the OpenGL graphics pipeline that were formerly fixed-function, and are executed directly on the GPU. It provides programmers with unprecedented flexibility for implementing effects and optimizations utilizing the power of modern GPUs. With Version 4, the language has been further refined to provide programmers with greater power and flexibility, with new stages such as tessellation and compute.OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples that first walk you through the theory and background behind each technique, and then go on to provide and explain the GLSL and OpenGL code needed to implement it. Beginner level through to advanced techniques are presented including topics such as texturing, screen-space techniques, lighting, shading, tessellation shaders, geometry shaders, compute shaders, and shadows.OpenGL Shading Language 4 Cookbook is a practical guide that takes you from the fundamentals of programming with modern GLSL and OpenGL, through to advanced techniques. The recipes build upon each other and take you quickly from novice to advanced level code.You'll see essential lighting and shading techniques; examples that demonstrate how to make use of textures for a wide variety of effects and as part of other techniques; examples of screen-space techniques including HDR rendering, bloom, and blur; shadowing techniques; tessellation, geometry, and compute shaders; how to use noise effectively; and animation with particle systems.OpenGL Shading Language 4 Cookbook provides examples of modern shading techniques that can be used as a starting point for programmers to expand upon to produce modern, interactive, 3D computer graphics applications.

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook. Build high-quality, real-time 3D graphics with OpenGL 4.6, GLSL 4.6 and C++17 - Third Edition

David Wolff

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Third Edition provides easy-to-follow recipes that first walk you through the theory and background behind each technique, and then proceed to showcase and explain the GLSL and OpenGL code needed to implement them.The book begins by familiarizing you with beginner-level topics such as compiling and linking shader programs, saving and loading shader binaries (including SPIR-V), and using an OpenGL function loader library. We then proceed to cover basic lighting and shading effects. After that, you'll learn to use textures, produce shadows, and use geometry and tessellation shaders. Topics such as particle systems, screen-space ambient occlusion, deferred rendering, depth-based tessellation, and physically based rendering will help you tackle advanced topics.OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, Third Edition also covers advanced topics such as shadow techniques (including the two of the most common techniques: shadow maps and shadow volumes). You will learn how to use noise in shaders and how to use compute shaders.The book provides examples of modern shading techniques that can be used as a starting point for programmers to expand upon to produce modern, interactive, 3D computer-graphics applications.

OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook. With over 60 recipes, this Cookbook will teach you both the elementary and finer points of the OpenGL Shading Language, and get you familiar with the specific features of GLSL 4.0. A totally practical, hands-on guide

David Wolff, OpenGL

The OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) is a programming language used for customizing parts of the OpenGL graphics pipeline that were formerly fixed-function, and are executed directly on the GPU. It provides programmers with unprecedented flexibility for implementing effects and optimizations utilizing the power of modern GPUs. With version 4.0, the language has been further refined to provide programmers with greater flexibility, and additional features have been added such as an entirely new stage called the tessellation shader.The OpenGL Shading Language 4.0 Cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples that first walk you through the theory and background behind each technique then go on to provide and explain the GLSL and OpenGL code needed to implement it. Beginning level through to advanced techniques are presented including topics such as texturing, screen-space techniques, lighting, shading, tessellation shaders, geometry shaders, and shadows.The OpenGL Shading Language 4.0 Cookbook is a practical guide that takes you from the basics of programming with GLSL 4.0 and OpenGL 4.0, through basic lighting and shading techniques, to more advanced techniques and effects. It presents techniques for producing basic lighting and shading effects; examples that demonstrate how to make use of textures for a wide variety of effects and as part of other techniques; examples of screen-space techniques, shadowing, tessellation and geometry shaders, noise, and animation.The OpenGL Shading Language 4.0 Cookbook provides examples of modern shading techniques that can be used as a starting point for programmers to expand upon to produce modern, interactive, 3D computer graphics applications.

OpenGL Data Visualization Cookbook. Over 35 hands-on recipes to create impressive, stunning visuals for a wide range of real-time, interactive applications using OpenGL

William Lo, Raymond Chun Hing Lo

OpenGL is a great multi-platform, cross-language, and hardware-accelerated graphics interface for visualizing large 2D and 3D datasets. Data visualization has become increasingly challenging using conventional approaches as datasets become larger and larger, especially with the Big Data evolution. From a mobile device to a sophisticated high-performance computing cluster, OpenGL libraries provide developers with an easy-to-use interface to create stunning visuals in 3D in real time for a wide range of interactive applications.This book provides a series of easy-to-follow, hands-on tutorials to create appealing OpenGL-based visualization tools with minimal development time. We will first illustrate how to quickly set up the development environment in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Next, we will demonstrate how to visualize data for a wide range of applications using OpenGL, starting from simple 2D datasets to increasingly complex 3D datasets with more advanced techniques. Each chapter addresses different visualization problems encountered in real life and introduces the relevant OpenGL features and libraries in a modular fashion.By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the essential skills to develop a wide range of impressive OpenGL-based applications for your unique data visualization needs, on platforms ranging from conventional computers to the latest mobile/wearable devices.

OpenGL Development Cookbook. OpenGL brings an added dimension to your graphics by utilizing the remarkable power of modern GPUs. This straight-talking cookbook is perfect for intermediate C++ programmers who want to exploit the full potential of OpenGL

Muhammad Mobeen Movania

OpenGL is the leading cross-language, multi-platform API used by masses of modern games and applications in a vast array of different sectors. Developing graphics with OpenGL lets you harness the increasing power of GPUs and really take your visuals to the next level.OpenGL Development Cookbook is your guide to graphical programming techniques to implement 3D mesh formats and skeletal animation to learn and understand OpenGL.OpenGL Development Cookbook introduces you to the modern OpenGL. Beginning with vertex-based deformations, common mesh formats, and skeletal animation with GPU skinning, and going on to demonstrate different shader stages in the graphics pipeline. OpenGL Development Cookbook focuses on providing you with practical examples on complex topics, such as variance shadow mapping, GPU-based paths, and ray tracing. By the end you will be familiar with the latest advanced GPU-based volume rendering techniques.

OpenGL Game Development By Example. Design and code your own 2D and 3D games efficiently using OpenGL and C++

Stephen Madsen, Robert Madsen

OpenGL is one of the most popular rendering SDKs used to develop games. OpenGL has been used to create everything from 3D masterpieces running on desktop computers to 2D puzzles running on mobile devices. You will learn to apply both 2D and 3D technologies to bring your game idea to life. There is a lot more to making a game than just drawing pictures and that is where this book is unique! It provides a complete tutorial on designing and coding games from the setup of the development environment to final credits screen, through the creation of a 2D and 3D game.The book starts off by showing you how to set up a development environment using Visual Studio, and create a code framework for your game. It then walks you through creation of two games–a 2D platform game called Roboracer 2D and a 3D first-person space shooter game–using OpenGL to render both 2D and 3D graphics using a 2D coordinate system. You'll create sprite classes, render sprites and animation, and navigate and control the characters. You will also learn how to implement input, use audio, and code basic collision and physics systems. From setting up the development environment to creating the final credits screen, the book will take you through the complete journey of creating a game engine that you can extend to create your own games.

OpenGL. Księga eksperta. Wydanie VII

Nicholas Haemel, Graham Sellers

Biblioteka OpenGL jest potężnym systemem graficznym, doskonałym API do generowania grafiki trójwymiarowej w czasie rzeczywistym. System ten nadaje się znakomicie do wizualizacji wszelkiego rodzaju odwzorowań zjawisk fizycznych czy obiektów technicznych, a także do przedstawiania symulacji ze zmieniającymi się parametrami. Często jest wykorzystywany do pisania gier komputerowych. Daje możliwość tworzenia świetnej grafiki na wiele różnych platform z wykorzystaniem tych samych zestawów instrukcji. Co ważne, OpenGL jest całkowicie darmową biblioteką, a dostępność licznych rozszerzeń znakomicie zwiększa wachlarz jej zastosowań. Niniejsza książka stanowi doskonałe wprowadzenie w tematykę OpenGL dla każdego programisty, nawet dla osób niezbyt biegłych w zagadnieniach grafiki komputerowej. Zawiera opis całego głównego API, kluczowych rozszerzeń i wszystkich typów shaderów z uwzględnieniem najnowszych elementów biblioteki. Wyjaśniono tu zasady działania OpenGL i opisano zagadnienia potoków graficznych. Stopniowo czytelnik jest zaznajamiany z coraz bardziej złożonymi technikami. W książce znalazły się liczne przykłady kodu działającego na kilku popularnych platformach. Warto podkreślić, że autorzy poza API przedstawili również najlepsze praktyki programistyczne. W tej książce opisano między innymi: podstawy (w tym matematyczne) grafiki 3D czasu rzeczywistego najważniejsze techniki renderowania, przekształcania i teksturowania obiektów shadery i język GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) kwestie zarządzania danymi i kontroli dostępu do tych danych techniki budowania większych aplikacji i wdrażania ich na wielu platformach rendering zaawansowany: symulację oświetlenia i efekty artystyczne sposoby poprawiania wydajności, redukcji narzutu CPU i analizy zachowania GPU nowości w OpenGL, takie jak kompresja tekstur, rysowanie tekstu, rendering czcionek za pomocą pól odległości, wysokiej jakości filtrowanie tekstur i użycie OpenMP OpenGL? Kreatywnych ogranicza tylko wyobraźnia!

OpenGL. Podstawy programowania grafiki 3D

Janusz Ganczarski

OpenGL na scenę! Podstawy OpenGL, czyli co trzeba wiedzieć, żeby zacząć tworzyć grafikę trójwymiarową przy użyciu tej biblioteki Programowanie w Open GL, czyli jakie elementy należy wziąć pod uwagę przy tworzeniu realistycznego obrazu Bez matmy ani rusz, czyli jak zaprząc geometrię i arytmetykę do pracy przy scenie Darmowa biblioteka OpenGL jest świetnym narzędziem do tworzenia grafiki trójwymiarowej na różnych platformach sprzętowych i w różnych systemach operacyjnych. Jej legendarne możliwości, doskonalone od 1992 roku do dziś, znakomicie sprawdzają się na przykład w grach komputerowych. Z kolei otwarty interfejs programistyczny pozwolił na zbudowanie wokół niej mnóstwa narzędzi uzupełniających i rozszerzeń, które przydadzą się każdemu użytkownikowi pragnącemu wykreować swój własny świat w formacie 3D. Jeśli masz ochotę spróbować sił w programowaniu grafiki i zobaczyć na ekranie to, co na razie pozostaje jedynie w Twojej wyobraźni, ta książka pomoże Ci zrealizować cel. Dowiesz się z niej, jak zbudowana jest biblioteka, jakie zasady rządzą pisaniem programów w OpenGL oraz do czego służą obiekty i co możesz z nimi zrobić. Nauczysz się przekształcać scenę, budować modele oświetlenia i obsługiwać tekstury. Poznasz różne rodzaje buforów i zobaczysz, na czym polega antyaliasing. Odkryjesz też, jak przetwarzać geometrię obiektów i jak tworzyć realistyczne cienie. W dodatkach do książki znajdziesz natomiast informacje, które pomogą Ci rozpocząć pracę z tą biblioteką. Poznaj OpenGL i zachwyć świat swoimi grafikami! Co to jest OpenGL? Historia i perspektywy OpenGL Pierwszy program Rzutowanie i transformacje Cieniowanie i oświetlenie Tekstury i antyaliasing Zaawansowane przekształcanie geometrii Cienie Odwzorowanie środowiska i nierówności powierzchni Rozszerzenia Macierze i wektory Język GLSL Wykreuj swój świat z OpenGL!

OpenGL. Receptury dla programisty

Muhammad Mobeen Movania

Ponad 40 gotowych przepisów pokazujących możliwości zastosowania biblioteki OpenGL w nowoczesnych aplikacjach OpenGL dostarcza programistom API do renderowania zaawansowanych grafik i animacji. To oprogramowanie umożliwia im tworzenie niezwykle atrakcyjnych gier, prezentacji oraz efektów graficznych. Jeżeli chcesz poznać możliwości OpenGL, jeżeli szukasz odpowiedzi na nurtujące Cię pytania, to trafiłeś na świetną książkę! Znajdziesz w niej zbiór receptur cenionych przez programistów. Dzięki nim błyskawicznie rozwiążesz typowe problemy oraz zobaczysz, jak podejść do przeróżnych zagadnień związanych z OpenGL. Sięgnij po tę lekturę, a nauczysz się wybierać obiekty na podstawie ich różnych właściwości, mapować środowisko, filtrować obraz oraz tworzyć realne scenerie za pomocą odpowiedniej gry światła i cienia. Ponadto zobaczysz, jak śledzić promienie, ścieżki oraz tworzyć animacje szkieletowe i symulacje fizyczne. Ta książka to kopalnia najlepszych przepisów na wykorzystanie OpenGL! Na licznych przykładach poznasz zasady: tworzenia renderingowego kontekstu w OpenGL 3.3, operowania wirtualną kamerą i wskazywania obiektów w scenie 3D, symulowania odbić lustrzanych za pomocą renderowania pozaekranowego i mapowania środowiska, stosowania technik mapowania cieni włącznie z mapowaniem wariancyjnym, implementowania systemów cząsteczkowych przy użyciu shaderów, realizacji globalnego oświetlenia w oparciu o GPU i z użyciem harmonik sferycznych oraz SSAO, symulowania przezroczystości metodami bazującymi na dualnym peelingu głębi, wykonywania renderingów wolumetrycznych metodą cięcia połówkowokątowego i symulacji fizycznych z transformacyjnym sprzężeniem zwrotnym. Najlepsze przepisy na OpenGL!

OpenJDK Cookbook. Over 80 recipes to build and extend your very own version of Java platform using OpenJDK project

Alex Kasko, Alexey Kashchenko, Alexey Mironchenko, Stanislav Kobylyanskiy

OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide. Create, optimize, and deploy stunning cross-browser web maps with the OpenLayers JavaScript web mapping library

Erik Hazzard, OpenLayers Project Paypal info@osgeo.org

OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook. This book will provide users with a variety of recipes that illustrate different features present in OpenLayers 3 - Second Edition

Peter J. Langley, Antonio Santiago Perez

OpenLayers 3 is one of the most important and complete open source JavaScript mapping libraries today. Throughout this book, you will go through recipes that expose various features of OpenLayers 3, allowing you to gain an insight into building complex GIS web applications.You will get to grips with the basics of creating a map with common functionality and quickly advance to more complicated solutions that address modern challenges. You will explore into maps, raster and vector layers, and styling in depth. This book also includes problem solving and how-to recipes for the most common and important tasks.

OpenLayers Cookbook. The best method to learn the many ways OpenLayers can be used to render data on maps is to dive straight into these recipes. With a mix of basic and advanced techniques, it’s ideal for JavaScript novices and experts alike

Antonio Santiago Perez, Antonio Santiago

Data visualization and analysis has become an important task for many companies. Understanding the basic concepts of GIS and knowing how to visualize data on a map is a required ability for many professionals today. OpenLayers is a JavaScript library to load, display, and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.OpenLayers Cookbook teaches how to work with OpenLayers, one of the most important and complete open source JavaScript libraries.Through an extensive set of recipes, this book shows how to work with the main concepts required to build a GIS web applicationñ maps, raster and vector layers, styling, theming, and so on.OpenLayers Cookbook includes problem solving and how-to recipes for the most common and important tasks. A wide range of topics are covered.The range of recipes includes: creating basic maps, working with raster and vector layers, understanding events and working with main controls, reading features from different data sources, styling features, and understanding the underlying architecture.OpenLayers Cookbook describes solutions and optimizations to problems commonly found.

OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing. This book will teach you to build and maintain a cloud infrastructure using OpenNebula, one of the most advanced, highly scalable toolkits for GNU/Linux. Walks you through from initial planning to advanced management techniques

Giovanni Toraldo, Ignacio Martin Llorente

OpenNebula is one of the most advanced and highly-scalable open source cloud computing toolkits. If you ever wanted to understand what Cloud Computing is and how to realize it, or if you need a handy way to manage your messy infrastructure in a simple and coherent manner, this is your way. OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing guides you along the building and maintenance of your cloud infrastructure, providing real-world examples, step-by-step configuration and other critical information. The book keeps you a step ahead in dealing with the demanding nature of cloud computing and virtual infrastructure management using one of the most advanced cloud computing toolkitsñ OpenNebula. The book takes you from a basic knowledge of OpenNebula to expert understanding of the most advanced features.The book starts with a basic planning of hardware resources and presents the unique benefits of the supported hypervisors; you will go in deep with day-to-day management of virtual instances, infrastructure monitoring and integration with Public Clouds like Amazon EC2.With this book you will be able to get started with fast and cheap configuration recipes, but also go deeper for a correct integration with your existing infrastructure.You will deal with well-know virtualization technologies like Xen and VMware, but also with the promising KVM technology integrated in the Linux kernel. After the basic infrastructure set-up, you will learn how to create and manage virtual instance via both command-line and web interfaces, and how to monitor your existing resources.At the end, the book acquaints you with integrating your local infrastructure with external Cloud resources but also publishing your resources to others via common API interfaces.

OpenNI Cookbook. Learn how to write NIUI-based applications and motion-controlled games

Soroush Falahati

The release of Microsoft Kinect, then PrimeSense Sensor, and Asus Xtion opened new doors for developers to interact with users, re-design their application’s UI, and make them environment (context) aware. For this purpose, developers need a good framework which provides a complete application programming interface (API), and OpenNI is the first choice in this field. This book introduces the new version of OpenNI.OpenNI Cookbook will show you how to start developing a Natural Interaction UI for your applications or games with high level APIs and at the same time access RAW data from different sensors of different hardware supported by OpenNI using low level APIs. It also deals with expanding OpenNI by writing new modules and expanding applications using different OpenNI compatible middleware, including NITE.OpenNI Cookbook favors practical examples over plain theory, giving you a more hands-on experience to help you learn. OpenNI Cookbook starts with information about installing devices and retrieving RAW data from them, and then shows how to use this data in applications. You will learn how to access a device or how to read data from it and show them using OpenGL, or use middleware (especially NITE) to track and recognize users, hands, and guess the skeleton of a person in front of a device, all through examples.You also learn about more advanced aspects such as how to write a simple module or middleware for OpenNI itself.OpenNI Cookbook shows you how to start and experiment with both NIUI designs and OpenNI itself using examples.

OpenOffice.ux.pl 3.1. Ćwiczenia praktyczne

Maria Sokół

Przekonaj się, ile profesjonalizmu kryje się w tanim oprogramowaniu! Tworzenie atrakcyjnych dokumentów tekstowych Wykorzystanie możliwości obliczeniowych arkusza kalkulacyjnego Opracowywanie ciekawych prezentacji multimedialnych Z oprogramowania biurowego — pozwalającego tworzyć dokumenty tekstowe, arkusze kalkulacyjne czy prezentacje multimedialne — korzystają prawie wszyscy użytkownicy komputerów osobistych. Niestety, popularny pakiet Microsoft Office nie należy do najtańszych. Stąd bierze się rosnące zainteresowanie alternatywnymi programami, czasem dostępnymi bezpłatnie, a czasem za niewygórowaną, zdecydowanie niższą cenę. Do tej drugiej kategorii należy właśnie pakiet OpenOffice.ux.pl, będący przystosowaną do potrzeb polskiego użytkownika odmianą otwartego, darmowego pakietu biurowego OpenOffice.org. W książce "OpenOffice.ux.pl 3.1. Ćwiczenia praktyczne" znajdziesz zbiór przydatnych informacji na temat narzędzi pakietu oraz ćwiczenia umożliwiające natychmiastową sprawną pracę w programie. Dzięki lekturze dowiesz się, jak przy użyciu programu Writer utworzyć i sformatować profesjonalny dokument tekstowy, umieścić w nim ciekawe elementy wizualne oraz otrzymać efekt końcowy w postaci atrakcyjnego wydruku. Poznasz również sposoby korzystania z aplikacji Calc i przeprowadzania za jej pomocą wszelkich obliczeń oraz tworzenia efektownych wykresów. Zdobędziesz także podstawowe informacje na temat używania programu Impress do składania profesjonalnych prezentacji. Dostosowywanie środowiska pracy Tworzenie dokumentów tekstowych za pomocą programu Writer Formatowanie tekstu Wstawianie i formatowanie obrazów, tabel, list oraz spisów treści Korzystanie z programu Calc do tworzenia i formatowania arkuszy kalkulacyjnych Przeprowadzanie prostych obliczeń i używanie funkcji Tworzenie i formatowanie wykresów Praca ze zbiorami danych Tworzenie i formatowanie prezentacji z wykorzystaniem aplikacji Impress Drukowanie dokumentów, arkuszy i pokazów slajdów Korzystaj z bogactwa możliwości pakietu OpenOffice!

OpenSceneGraph 3.0: Beginner's Guide. This book is a concise introduction to the main features of OpenSceneGraph which then leads you into the fundamentals of developing virtual reality applications. Practical instructions and explanations accompany you every step of the way

Xuelei Qian, Rui Wang, Robert Osfield

Virtual reality has quite a lot of demand in computer science today and OpenSceneGraph, being one of the best 3D graphics toolkits, is being used widely. Although you can use the powerful OpenSceneGraph, based on the low-level OpenGL API, to implement virtual-reality applications that simulate different environments in the 3D world, developing picture-perfect applications is easier said than done.This book has been written with the goal of helping readers become familiar with the structure and main functionalities of OpenSceneGraph (OSG), and guide them to develop virtual-reality applications using this powerful 3D graphics engine. This book covers the essence of OpenSceneGraph (OSG), providing programmers with detailed explanations and examples of scene graph APIs.This book helps you take full advantages of the key features and functionalities of OpenSceneGraph (OSG). You will learn almost all of the core elements required in a virtual reality application, including memory management, geometry creation, the structure of the scene graph, realistic rendering effects, scene navigation, animation, interaction with input devices and external user interfaces, file reading and writing, and so on.With the essential knowledge contained in this book, you will be able to start using OSG in your own projects and research fields, and extend its functionalities by referring to OSG's source code, official examples and API documentation.This handy book divides the core functionalities of the proved and comprehensive OpenSceneGraph (OSG) 3D graphics engine into different aspects, which are introduced in separate chapters. Each chapter can be treated as an individual part that covers one important field of OSG programming, along with several examples illustrating concrete usages and solutions. But the sequence of chapters is also organized from the easy to the more difficult, to help you get to grips with OSG.By the end of the whole book, you will have gained a ready-to-use OSG development environment for yourself and have the general ability to develop OSG-based applications and extend practical functionalities for your own purposes.

OpenShift Cookbook. Over 100 hands-on recipes that will help you create, deploy, manage, and scale OpenShift applications

Shekhar Gulati

OpenShift Multi-Cluster Management Handbook. Go from architecture to pipelines using GitOps

Giovanni Fontana, Rafael Pecora, Marcos Amorim

For IT professionals working with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the key to maximizing efficiency is understanding the powerful and resilient options to maintain the software development platform with minimal effort. OpenShift Multi-Cluster Management Handbook is a deep dive into the technology, containing knowledge essential for anyone who wants to work with OpenShift.This book starts by covering the architectural concepts and definitions necessary for deploying OpenShift clusters. It then takes you through designing Red Hat OpenShift for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, showing you different approaches for multiple environments (from on-premises to cloud providers). As you advance, you’ll learn container security strategies to protect pipelines, data, and infrastructure on each layer. You’ll also discover tips for critical decision making once you understand the importance of designing a comprehensive project considering all aspects of an architecture that will allow the solution to scale as your application requires.By the end of this OpenShift book, you’ll know how to design a comprehensive Red Hat OpenShift cluster architecture, deploy it, and effectively manage your enterprise-grade clusters and other critical components using tools in OpenShift Plus.

OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2. Automate and monitor administrative tasks - Second Edition

Walter Bentley

Most organizations are seeking methods to improve business agility because they have realized just having a cloud is not enough. Being able to improve application deployments, reduce infrastructure downtime, and eliminate daily manual tasks can only be accomplished through some sort of automation.We start with a brief overview of OpenStack and Ansible 2 and highlight some best practices. Each chapter will provide an introduction to handling various Cloud Operator administration tasks such as managing containers within your cloud; setting up/utilizing open source packages for monitoring; creating multiple users/tenants; taking instance snapshots; and customizing your cloud to run multiple active regions. Each chapter will also supply a step-by-step tutorial on how to automate these tasks with Ansible 2.Packed with real-world OpenStack administrative tasks, this book will walk you through working examples and explain how these tasks can be automated using one of the most popular open source automation tools on the market today.

OpenStack Administration with Ansible. Design, build, and automate 10 real-world OpenStack administrative tasks with Ansible

Walter Bentley

Most organizations are seeking methods to improve business agility because they have realized just having a cloud is not enough. Being able to improve application deployments, reduce infrastructure downtime, and eliminate daily manual tasks can only be accomplished through some sort of automation.Packed with real-world OpenStack administrative tasks, this book will walk you through working examples and explain how these tasks can be automated using one of the most popular open source automation tools—Ansible.We will start with a brief overview of OpenStack and Ansible and highlight some best practices. Each chapter will provide an introduction to handling various Cloud Operator administration tasks such as creating multiple users/tenants, setting up Multi-Tenant Isolation, customizing your clouds quotas, taking instance snapshots, evacuating compute hosts for maintenance, and running cloud health checks, and a step-by-step tutorial on how to automate these tasks with Ansible.