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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud systems
- Cloud models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- Deployment models for OpenStack
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- Integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- The virtual machine lab environment for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons 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 characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images
- Managing image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Basic Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Managing external or provider networks
- North-South routing
- Managing floating IPs
- Managing network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota management
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Keypair management
- Flavor management
- Instance parameters
- Creating instances
- Verifying launched instances
- Snapshotting
- Instance management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring backups
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration with OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists
- Setting up object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage space
- Configuring quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Fundamental troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General diagnostic approaches for OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network problems
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavor sizing
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- High availability in OpenStack services
- High availability for databases
- High availability for message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates): why and how
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Optimizing live migration
- The Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3h)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS + Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Foundational knowledge of cloud computing principles
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- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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