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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key cloud characteristics
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid environments
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- OpenStack-based public and private cloud implementations
- Open-source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- Strategies for OpenStack deployment
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Supporting tools
- Third-party integrations
- OpenStack project lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Course-specific OpenStack lab environment (VM)
2. Practical OpenStack cloud management
- Familiarizing with OpenStack
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- Communication flows between OpenStack daemons and APIs
- Keystone – Identity Management Service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Service catalogs and endpoints
- Configuring CLI clients via Openrc and clouds.yaml
- Provisioning users and projects
- Glance – Image Service
- Adapting images for cloud environments
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Neutron – Networking
- Architectural overview of Neutron
- ML2 plugins for Neutron
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Networking operations at the Compute Node
- Administering tenant networks and subnets
- East-West traffic routing
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South traffic routing
- Handling Floating IPs
- Configuring security groups and rules
- Anti-spoofing measures and port security
- Networking quota management
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova – Compute Service
- Nova architectural design
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair administration
- Flavour management
- Instance parameter configuration
- Instantiating instances
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Utilizing interactive consoles and console logs
- Applying security groups
- Accessing instances via the metadata namespace
- Capturing instance interface traffic using tcpdump
- Live-migrating virtual machines
- Cinder – Block Storage
- Volume parameter configuration
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
3. Advanced analysis of Neutron and its OVN backend
- OVN architectural design
- OVN components
- ML2 drivers: OVN vs. OVS
- Top-down OVN networking approach
- OpenStack logic (Neutron database)
- Northbound database
- Southbound database
- Logical datapath pipelines
- Logical flows
- OpenFlow flows
- Neutron networks and OVN logical switches
- Logical ports and their classifications
- Switching flow logic
- Neutron routers and OVN logical routers
- NAT types
- Routing flow logic
- Neutron subnets and native DHCP
- DHCP flow logic
- Security groups within OVN
- ACLs and Port Groups
- Security group flow logic
- Port security implementation in OVN
- Overview of OVN Northbound tables
- Data flow within OVN
- Neutron DB, OVN NB and SB DB, and OpenFlow in OVS
- Tracing logical flows
- Defining microflows
- L2 level tracing
- L3 level tracing
- DHCP tracing
- Physical flows via OpenFlow
- Lifecycle of VM-originated packets at the physical layer
- Physical layer tracing
- Tracing hypothetical packet scenarios
- Tracing actual packet traffic
- Inspecting Open vSwitch databases and resources
Requirements
- Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts
- Fundamental grasp of cloud computing principles
- Hands-on experience with Linux operating system administration
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- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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