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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
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