Course Outline
- Overview of OpenStack architecture
- OpenStack laboratory environment (VM) for this course
- Message queues and database systems
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design principles
- Storage design strategies
- Flavor sizing guidelines
- Resource overcommitment techniques
- Highly Available control plane
- High availability in OpenStack services
- High availability for databases
- High availability for message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementation and rationale for cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Optimizing live migration
- Overview of the Watcher project
- Deep dive into OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) and the Octavia project
- VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)
- Troubleshooting
- General methodology for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Resolving network-related problems
- Log file analysis
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client requests
- Managing the OpenStack database
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Assessing compute node status
- Evaluating instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Understanding metadata services
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- The Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud and 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
- Concepts of undercloud and overcloud
- The future direction of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge
- Familiarity with the cloud computing paradigm
- Basic practical and theoretical understanding of OpenStack
Testimonials (5)
The virtual desktop in a browser feature was kind of neat.
Mikael Karlsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
Damian, is very skilled, I'm very pleased with everything, no complains, best training session I've participated in for a long time… It's very difficult to have a training course like this, totally remote, you did a great job, It went very well, there were no issues.
Peter Erlandsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The flexibility to answer questions. Good pdf, good examples
Conny Vigstrom - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The broad perspective of Openstack, no chance to dive in to deep to be able to keep schedule, more to where to get information from.
Jorgen Selegran - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
To get a better understanding about OpenStack.