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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of the cloud and OpenStack
- Key cloud characteristics
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments using OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- The OpenStack lab (VM) provided for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Exploring 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 the Keystone service catalogue and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image characteristics (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and retrieving images
- Sharing images
- Managing image service quotas
- Verifying Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Essential Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South routing
- Floating IP management
- Managing network quotas
- Basic network diagnostics (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota configuration
- Validation of Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavour management
- Instance parameters
- Instance creation
- Verifying created instances
- Snapshot management
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console log access
- Security group assignment
- Compute quota management
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verification of Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Backup restoration
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration in OpenStack
- Verification of Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists
- Configuring object expiration
- Rings and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring quotas
- Verification of Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Verification of Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- 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
- General methods for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Network problem troubleshooting
- Network performance troubleshooting
- Instance backup and recovery
3. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavour sizing
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- HA in OpenStack services
- Highly available database
- Highly available message queue
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementation strategies for cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Live migration optimization
- The Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS and the Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical storage 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
- Proficiency in basic Linux administration
- Foundational networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts
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