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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key cloud characteristics
- Cloud models
- Private, public, and hybrid
- 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
- Modules
- Foundational tools
- Integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification
- OpenStack lab (VM) dedicated to this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons 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 features (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing
- Managing image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron – Networking
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Managing 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 (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota configuration
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova – Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Key pair management
- Flavour management
- Instance parameters
- Instance creation
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshotting
- Instance administration
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Security group assignment
- Compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder – Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume administration
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Backup restoration
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph in 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 space
- Setting up quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat – Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating a Heat stack
- Verifying the Heat stack
- Updating a Heat stack
- Validating Heat services
- Fundamental troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- OpenStack database administration
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Computing node status analysis
- Instance status analysis
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Network problem troubleshooting
- Network performance troubleshooting
- Instance backup and recovery
2. 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
- HA database
- HA message queue
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and methods for implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Live migration optimization
- The Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3h)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS + Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- 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 upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Essential networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of cloud computing principles
28 Hours
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