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Course Outline

1. Introduction to OpenStack

  • Evolution of the cloud and OpenStack history
  • Core features of cloud computing
  • Cloud deployment models
    • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
    • On-premise solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  • Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
  • Distinguishing between open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
  • OpenStack deployment strategies
  • The OpenStack ecosystem
    • Core modules
    • Supporting tools
    • System integrations
  • OpenStack lifecycle management
  • OpenStack certification paths
  • Overview of the course lab (VM)

2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop

  • Understanding OpenStack
    • Key components: Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, and Heat
    • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
    • OpenStack daemons and API communication flow
  • Keystone - Identity Management Service
    • Domains, projects, users, and roles
    • Managing Keystone service catalogs and endpoints
    • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
    • Verifying Keystone services
  • Glance - Image Service
    • Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container type)
    • Uploading and downloading images
    • Sharing image resources
    • Managing quotas for the image service
    • Verifying Glance services
  • Neutron - Networking
    • Basic Neutron network resource types
    • Management of tenant networks and subnets
    • Configuration of security groups and rules
    • East-West routing mechanisms
    • Network namespaces
    • Management of external and provider networks
    • North-South routing strategies
    • Floating IP management
    • Managing network quotas
    • Basic network troubleshooting (including namespaces and tcpdump)
    • Networking quota policies
    • Verifying Neutron services
  • Nova - Compute Service
    • Interfaces to hypervisors
    • Keypair management
    • Flavor configuration
    • Instance parameters
    • Creating virtual instances
    • Verification of running instances
    • Creating and managing snapshots
    • General instance management
    • Assigning floating IPs
    • Accessing interactive consoles and console logs
    • Assigning security groups
    • Compute quota management
    • Gathering statistics from Nova
    • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
    • Verifying Nova services
  • Cinder - Block Storage
    • Volume parameters
    • Creating volumes
    • Managing volume resources
    • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
    • Managing volume snapshots
    • Managing volume backups
    • Restoring from backups
    • Managing volume quotas
    • Adding new storage backends
    • Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
    • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
    • Verifying Cinder services
  • Swift - Object Storage
    • Swift components and operational processes
    • Managing containers and objects
    • Managing access control lists (ACLs)
    • Configuring object expiration policies
    • The Ring architecture and storage policies
    • Monitoring available storage capacity
    • Setting up quotas
    • Verifying Swift services
  • Heat - Orchestration
    • Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT) and their components
    • Creating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat stack configurations
    • Updating existing Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat services

Requirements

  • Foundational skills in Linux administration
  • Basic knowledge of networking
  • Familiarity with cloud computing paradigms
 14 Hours

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