OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
• Key features of cloud infrastructure
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Open-source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying supporting tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• The dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Familiarizing with OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Daemon operations and API communication workflows
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Managing the Keystone catalogue, 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 retrieving images
  • Image sharing mechanisms
  • Managing image service quotas
  • Validating Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Core 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
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Reviewing networking quotas
  • Validating Neutron services
• Nova - Compute service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Keypair management
  • Flavor management
  • Instance configuration parameters
  • Provisioning instances
  • Verifying created instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • Instance lifecycle management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Using interactive consoles and console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Managing compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume parameters
  • Creating volumes
  • Managing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Managing volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
  • Validating 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 capacity
  • Setting up quotas
  • Validating Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stacks
  • Updating Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat services