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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud platforms
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid environments
- On-premise solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment strategies
- The broader OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack project lifecycle
- Professional certification pathways
- Course-specific OpenStack lab environment (VM)
2. Practical OpenStack Cloud Management
- Understanding OpenStack fundamentals
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
- Daemon operations and API communication workflows
- Keystone: Identity Management Service
- Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
- Service catalogues and endpoints
- Configuring CLI clients via Openrc and clouds.yaml
- Provisioning new users and projects
- Glance: Image Service
- Cloud-optimized images
- Image attributes including properties, metadata, format, and container types
- Processes for uploading and retrieving images
- Neutron: Networking
- Architectural overview of Neutron
- ML2 plugins for Neutron
- Core network resource types
- Networking operations at the Compute Node
- Administration of tenant networks and subnets
- East-West routing configuration
- Management of external and provider networks
- North-South routing implementation
- Handling Floating IPs
- Defining security groups and rules
- Port security for anti-spoofing measures
- Enforcement of networking quotas
- Validating Neutron service status
- Nova: Compute Service
- Nova architecture details
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair administration
- Flavour management
- Instance configuration parameters
- Instance creation processes
- Ongoing instance management
- Assignment of Floating IPs
- Using interactive consoles and viewing console logs
- Applying security groups to instances
- Accessing instance data via the metadata namespace
- Capturing instance interface traffic with tcpdump
- Performing live VM migration
- Cinder: Block Storage
- Volume configuration parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
3. Advanced Neutron and OVN Backend Analysis
- OVN architecture overview
- Key OVN components
- Comparing ML2 drivers: OVN vs. OvS
- Top-down approach to OVN networking
- OpenStack logic (Neutron database)
- Northbound database structure
- Southbound database structure
- Logical datapath pipelines
- Logical flow definitions
- OpenFlow flow implementation
- Mapping Neutron networks to OVN logical switches
- Logical port types and definitions
- Switching flow mechanisms
- Mapping Neutron routers to OVN logical routers
- NAT types and configurations
- Routing flow logic
- Neutron subnets and native DHCP integration
- DHCP flow handling
- Security groups within OVN
- ACLs and Port Groups
- Security group flow rules
- Port security implementation in OVN
- Overview of OVN Northbound tables
- Information flow analysis in OVN
- Tracing data through Neutron DB, OVN NB and SB DBs, and OpenFlow at OvS
- Logical flow tracing techniques
- Defining microflows
- Layer 2 tracing
- Layer 3 tracing
- DHCP tracing methods
- Physical flows and OpenFlow
- The physical lifecycle of a VM-originated packet
- Physical traffic tracing
- Tracing hypothetical packet paths
- Tracing actual network packets
- Inspecting Open vSwitch databases and resources
Requirements
- Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts
- Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing principles
- Hands-on experience managing Linux operating systems
21 Hours
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