OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud technology and the history of OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud computing
• Cloud service models
  • Private, public, and hybrid architectures
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparing open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying technical tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack project lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Setup of the OpenStack lab environment (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop

• Familiarization with OpenStack
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Communication flows between OpenStack daemons and APIs
• Keystone – Identity Management Service
  • Structure of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Management of Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creation and management of domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone service functionality
• Glance – Image Service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, and container)
  • Uploading and downloading virtual machine images
  • Mechanisms for sharing images
  • Configuring image service quotas
  • Verifying Glance service operations
• Neutron – Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Administration of tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuration of security groups and rules
  • East-West routing strategies
  • Use of network namespaces
  • Management of external and provider networks
  • North-South routing implementation
  • Management of floating IP addresses
  • Configuration of network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Enforcement of networking quotas
  • Validation of Neutron services
• Nova – Compute Service
  • Interfaces for hypervisor communication
  • Management of key pairs
  • Flavor administration
  • Configuration of instance parameters
  • Provisioning new instances
  • Verification of launched instances
  • Creating and managing snapshots
  • General instance management
  • Assignment of floating IP addresses
  • Access to interactive consoles and console logs
  • Application of security groups
  • Management of compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistical data from Nova
  • Utilization of the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Assessment of Nova services
• Cinder – Block Storage
  • Configuration of volume parameters
  • Creation of new volumes
  • Volume administration
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Management of volume snapshots
  • Oversight of volume backups
  • Restoration of backed-up volumes
  • Regulation of volume quotas
  • Integration of new storage backends
  • Utilization of LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Implementation of Ceph within OpenStack
  • Verification of Cinder services
• Swift – Object Storage
  • Swift architecture and core processes
  • Management of containers and objects
  • Configuration of access control lists
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • Understanding the Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Establishment of storage quotas
  • Validation of Swift services
• Heat – Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creation of Heat stacks
  • Verification of deployed Heat stacks
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Assessment of Heat services