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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 infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparing open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- Exploring the OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Supporting tools
- Integration capabilities
- OpenStack lifecycle management
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Setup of the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing with OpenStack
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone – Identity Management Service
- Understanding domains, projects, users, and roles
- Administering Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance – Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container type)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing mechanisms
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron – Networking
- Neutron network resource types
- Configuring tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Configuring external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Floating IP management
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova – Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavor management
- Instance configuration parameters
- Launching instances
- Verifying running instances
- Creating snapshots
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Using interactive consoles and console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Compute quotas
- Gathering statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder – Block Storage
- Volume configuration parameters
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Introducing new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift – Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists
- Configuring object expiration policies
- Understanding the Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat – Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) and its components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
Requirements
- Foundational skills in Linux administration
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Familiarity with cloud computing principles
14 Hours
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