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Duration 28 hours (4 days)
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification paths
- Course-specific OpenStack lab (VM) setup
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Exploring OpenStack
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
- Keystone - Identity management service
- Managing 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)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing mechanisms
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- 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
- Floating IP management
- Network quota administration
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Reviewing networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair management
- Flavour administration
- Instance configuration parameters
- Instance creation process
- Verification of created instances
- Snapshot management
- General instance management
- Floating IP assignment
- Interactive console and console log access
- Security group application
- Compute quota management
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume configuration parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume administration
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Volume snapshot management
- Volume backup administration
- Backup restoration procedures
- Volume quota management
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration in OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Container and object management
- Access control list administration
- Object expiration settings
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Quota configuration
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Centralized logging strategies
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- OpenStack database management
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Computing node status analysis
- Instance status diagnostics
- AMQP broker (RabbitMQ) analysis
- Metadata service verification
- General approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Network problem troubleshooting
- Network performance troubleshooting
- Instance backup and recovery
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design principles
- Storage design principles
- Flavour sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- High Availability in OpenStack services
- High Availability database configuration
- High Availability message queue setup
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filter configuration
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Live migration optimization
- The Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3h)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS + Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning / NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Essential networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of cloud computing paradigms
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