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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
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