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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of the cloud and OpenStack
- Key cloud characteristics
- Cloud deployment models
- private, public, hybrid
- on-premise, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack service lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
- OpenStack daemons and API communication patterns
- Keystone - Identity management service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing the Keystone catalogue, services, and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and retrieving images
- Image sharing mechanisms
- Configuring image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Basic Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets,
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Floating IP management
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota management
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavor configuration
- Instance parameters
- Launching instances
- Verifying launched instances
- Snapshot creation
- Instance management tasks
- Assigning floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and viewing console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Compute quota management
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Handling volume backups
- Restoring backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Access control list management
- Configuring object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Setting storage quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Centralized logging implementation
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack data
- Assessing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Inspecting the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata service configuration
- General approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Resolving network problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network design principles
- Storage architecture design
- Flavor sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- HA implementation 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 filter configuration
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration performance
- The Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3h)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS + Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service usage
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning / NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade techniques
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Introductory knowledge of cloud computing paradigms
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