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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

1. Introduction to OpenStack

  • Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
  • Key cloud capabilities
  • Cloud deployment models
    • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
    • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  • Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack
  • Open-source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
  • OpenStack deployment strategies
  • The OpenStack ecosystem
    • Core modules
    • Underlying tools
    • Integrations
  • OpenStack lifecycle management
  • OpenStack certification pathways
  • Dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

  • Exploring OpenStack 
    • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
    • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
    • Daemon operations and API communication flows
  • Keystone: Identity management service
    • Domains, projects, users, and roles
    • Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
    • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
    • Validating Keystone services
  • Glance: Image service
    • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
    • Uploading and downloading images
    • Image sharing mechanisms
    • Configuring image service quotas
    • Verifying Glance services
  • Neutron: Networking
    • Essential Neutron network resource types
    • Managing tenant networks and subnets
    • Configuring security groups and rules
    • East-West routing
    • Network namespaces
    • Managing external and provider networks
    • North-South routing
    • Floating IP management
    • Configuring network quotas
    • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
    • Reviewing networking quotas
    • Verifying Neutron services
  • Nova: Compute service
    • Hypervisor interfaces
    • Keypair management
    • Flavour management
    • Instance parameters
    • Instance creation
    • Verifying spawned instances
    • Snapshotting
    • Instance administration
    • Assigning floating IPs
    • Using the interactive console and console logs
    • Assigning security groups
    • Compute quota management
    • Retrieving statistics from Nova
    • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
    • Verifying Nova services
  • Cinder: Block Storage
    • Volume parameters
    • Volume creation
    • Volume administration
    • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
    • Managing volume snapshots
    • Managing volume backups
    • Restoring backups
    • Configuring volume quotas
    • Adding new storage backends
    • LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
    • Ceph integration in OpenStack
    • Verifying Cinder services
  • Swift: Object Storage
    • Swift components and processes
    • Managing containers and objects
    • Configuring access control lists
    • Setting object expiration policies
    • The Ring and storage policies
    • Monitoring available storage space
    • Configuring quotas
    • Verifying Swift services
  • Heat: Orchestration
    • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
    • Creating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat stacks
    • Updating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat services

Requirements

  • Fundamental Linux administration capabilities
  • Essential networking concepts
  • Basic understanding of cloud computing principles

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  • Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
  • Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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