OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of the cloud
• Cloud service models
  • Private, public, and hybrid architectures
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS delivery models
• Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Foundational tools
  • System integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• The dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) used for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Familiarization with OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods of interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Communication flow between OpenStack daemons and APIs
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Managing Keystone service catalogues 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
  • Sharing images across accounts
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Validating Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets 
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing mechanisms
  • Network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South routing mechanisms
  • Floating IP management
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Review of networking quotas
  • Validating Neutron services
• Nova - Compute service
  • Interfaces connecting to hypervisors
  • Key pair management
  • Flavor management
  • Instance configuration parameters
  • Instance creation procedures
  • Verifying created instances
  • Snapshot capabilities
  • General instance management
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and viewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Computing quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume configuration parameters
  • Volume creation processes
  • Volume management
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Configuring volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integration of Ceph within OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder services
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processing workflows
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Managing access control lists (ACLs)
  • Configuring object expiration policies
  • The Ring architecture and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Setting up storage quotas
  • Validating Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stacks
  • Updating Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat services