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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud services
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid architectures
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment methodologies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Integrations
- The OpenStack project lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Dedicated OpenStack laboratory (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- Daemon interactions and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing the Keystone service catalog 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 downloading images
- Image sharing capabilities
- Configuring image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West traffic routing
- Network namespaces
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South traffic routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network diagnostics (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Reviewing networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Managing keypairs
- Managing flavours
- Instance configuration parameters
- Instance creation procedures
- Verifying launched instances
- Creating snapshots
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and console logs
- Applying security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume configuration parameters
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from 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 operational processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Setting object expiration policies
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring 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
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack data
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General methodologies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Diagnosing network connectivity issues
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Flavour sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available Control Plane
- High availability in OpenStack services
- High availability for databases
- High availability for message queues
- Cloud Partitioning and Scheduler Filters
- Implementing cloud partitions (host aggregates): rationale and methods
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload Migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration
- 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
- The Ceilometer service
- 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 storage appliances
- Storage network design considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade techniques
- Bare-Metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future trajectory of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration capabilities
- Core networking concepts
- Introductory understanding of cloud computing principles
28 Hours
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