OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud services
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Different OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack project lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Setting up the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop 

• Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack 
  • Overview of core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Configuring Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Verifying Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image Service
  • Understanding image features (properties, metadata, format, container)
  • Uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing images across projects
  • Managing quotas for the image service
  • Verifying Glance service functionality
• Neutron - Networking
  • Basic Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing concepts
  • Using network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South routing concepts
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Reviewing networking quotas
  • Verifying Neutron service functionality
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Interfaces to hypervisors
  • Managing keypairs
  • Managing flavours
  • Configuring instance parameters
  • Creating new instances
  • Verifying spawned instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and console log
  • Assigning security groups
  • Managing compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Working with the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova service functionality
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Configuring volume parameters
  • Creating new volumes
  • Managing existing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Managing volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • Using LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder service functionality
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists
  • Setting up object expiration policies
  • Understanding Rings and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage space
  • Configuring quotas
  • Verifying Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating new Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stack status
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat service functionality