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1. Introduction to OpenStack

  • History of cloud computing and OpenStack
  • Key features of cloud environments
  • Cloud deployment models
    • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
    • On-premise infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
  • OpenStack-based public and private cloud deployments
  • Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
  • OpenStack deployment architectures
  • The OpenStack ecosystem
    • Core modules
    • Supporting tools
    • Integration capabilities
  • The OpenStack lifecycle
  • OpenStack certification pathways
  • Overview of the course lab (virtual machine)

2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop

  • Exploring OpenStack
    • Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
    • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
    • OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
  • 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 attributes (properties, metadata, format, container type)
    • Uploading and downloading images
    • Sharing images across the system
    • Configuring image service quotas
    • Validating Glance services
  • Neutron - Networking
    • Core Neutron network resource types
    • Managing tenant networks and subnets
    • Configuring security groups and rules
    • East-West routing
    • Network namespaces
    • Configuring external/provider networks
    • North-South routing
    • Managing floating IPs
    • Configuring network quotas
    • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
    • Network resource quotas
    • Validating Neutron services
  • Nova - Compute Service
    • Interfaces to hypervisors
    • Key pair management
    • Flavor configuration
    • Instance parameters
    • Provisioning instances
    • Verifying instance creation
    • Creating snapshots
    • Instance lifecycle management
    • Assigning floating IPs
    • Accessing interactive consoles and logs
    • Assigning security groups
    • Compute resource quotas
    • Retrieving statistics from Nova
    • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
    • Validating Nova services
  • Cinder - Block Storage
    • Volume configuration parameters
    • Creating volumes
    • Volume management operations
    • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
    • Managing volume snapshots
    • Managing volume backups
    • Restoring backups
    • Configuring volume quotas
    • Adding new storage backends
    • Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
    • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
    • Validating Cinder services
  • Swift - Object Storage
    • Swift components and processing mechanisms
    • Managing containers and objects
    • Configuring access control lists
    • Setting object expiration policies
    • Understanding Rings and storage policies
    • Monitoring available storage capacity
    • Configuring quotas
    • Validating Swift services
  • Heat - Orchestration
    • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
    • Creating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat stack status
    • Updating Heat stacks
    • Validating Heat services

Requirements

  • Fundamental Linux administration skills
  • Basic networking knowledge
  • Foundational understanding of cloud computing concepts
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