OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The history of the cloud and OpenStack
• Key cloud features
• Cloud models
  • Private, public, and hybrid
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack
• Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
• OpenStack deployment models
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification
• The OpenStack lab (VM) used 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
  • OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
• Keystone – Identity management service
  • Domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Verifying Keystone services
• Glance – Image service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
  • Uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing images
  • Managing quotas for the image service
  • Verifying 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
  • Managing network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Networking quotas
  • Verifying Neutron services
• Nova – Compute service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Keypair management
  • Flavour management
  • Instance parameters
  • Creating instances
  • Verifying spawned instances
  • Snapshotting
  • Instance management
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Interactive console and console logs
  • Security group assignment
  • Compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova services
• Cinder – Block Storage
  • Volume parameters
  • Creating volumes
  • Managing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring backups
  • Managing volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
  • Ceph within OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder services
• Swift – Object Storage
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Managing access control lists
  • Configuring object expiration
  • The Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage space
  • Setting up quotas
  • Verifying Swift services
• Heat – Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stacks
  • Updating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat services