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Duration 14 hours (2 days)
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Historical context of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud infrastructure
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid architectures
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Different OpenStack deployment strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- Understanding the OpenStack lifecycle
- Overview of OpenStack certification
- Setup of the OpenStack lab (VM) 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 environment
- Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity management service
- Understanding 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 image resources
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Understanding basic Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets,
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Reviewing networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavour management
- Configuring instance parameters
- Provisioning instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Accessing interactive consoles and console logs
- Applying security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Configuring volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Volume management tasks
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Integrating new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Using Ceph within OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting up object expiration policies
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring storage quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Understanding Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
Requirements
- Fundamental skills in Linux administration
- A foundational understanding of networking concepts
- Basic familiarity with cloud computing models
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