Course Outline
- OpenStack architecture overview
- Course-specific OpenStack lab (VM)
- Message queue and database systems
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavor sizing
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- HA in OpenStack services
- HA database
- HA message queue
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Tweaking live migration
- 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
- Troubleshooting
- General approach to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network problems
- Analyzing log files
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring
- 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 upgrade
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge
- Familiarity with the cloud computing paradigm
- Practical and theoretical understanding of OpenStack
Testimonials (5)
The virtual desktop in a browser feature was kind of neat.
Mikael Karlsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
Damian, is very skilled, I'm very pleased with everything, no complains, best training session I've participated in for a long time… It's very difficult to have a training course like this, totally remote, you did a great job, It went very well, there were no issues.
Peter Erlandsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The flexibility to answer questions. Good pdf, good examples
Conny Vigstrom - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The broad perspective of Openstack, no chance to dive in to deep to be able to keep schedule, more to where to get information from.
Jorgen Selegran - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
To get a better understanding about OpenStack.