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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- History of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key cloud features
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- OpenStack-based public and private cloud deployments
- Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Supporting tools
- Integration capabilities
- OpenStack lifecycle management
- OpenStack certification paths
- OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Understanding OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interaction with the OpenStack cloud interface
- OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying Keystone service functionality
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across the platform
- Managing image service quotas
- Verifying Glance service functionality
- Neutron - Networking
- Core Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing configuration
- Network namespaces
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Floating IP management
- Network quota management
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Networking quotas
- Verifying Neutron service functionality
- Nova - Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair management
- Flavor management
- Instance parameter configuration
- Creating virtual instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- 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
- Verifying Nova service functionality
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameter configuration
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring backups
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
- Ceph integration in OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder service functionality
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and operational processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists (ACLs)
- Configuring object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring quotas
- Verifying Swift service functionality
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) and its components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat service functionality
- Basic Troubleshooting Techniques
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Performing OpenStack backups
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Understanding metadata services
- General diagnostic procedures for OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network problems
- Troubleshooting network performance issues
- Instance backup and recovery
3. Advanced Topics
- Hardware Considerations and Capacity Planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design strategies
- Storage design strategies
- Flavor sizing guidelines
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available Control Plane
- High Availability in OpenStack services
- High Availability for databases
- High Availability for message queues
- Cloud Partitioning and Scheduler Filters
- Implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates): why and how
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload Migration Strategies
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Optimizing live migration
- The Watcher project for optimization
- 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 overview
- External monitoring integration
- Advanced Cloud/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 upgrade techniques
- Bare-Metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The Future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Foundational networking knowledge
- Familiarity with cloud computing paradigms
28 Hours
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