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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Characteristics of cloud environments
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud implementations using OpenStack
- Open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying supporting tools
- System integrations
- OpenStack operational lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Course-specific OpenStack laboratory (VM)
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarisation with OpenStack
- Key OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication mechanisms
- Keystone - Identity management service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creation and management of domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validation of Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing capabilities
- Managing image service quotas
- Validation of Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Basic Neutron network resource types
- Management of tenant networks and subnets
- Management of security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Management of external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Floating IP management
- Management of network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Networking quotas
- Validation of Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair management
- Flavour management
- Instance parameters
- Instance creation process
- Verification of created instances
- Snapshotting
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assignment of floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logging
- Security group assignment
- Compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validation of Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Volume snapshot management
- Volume backup management
- Backup restoration
- Volume quota management
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration in OpenStack
- Validation of Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Container and object management
- Access control list management
- Configuring object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Quota configuration
- Validation of Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template structure and components
- Heat stack creation
- Heat stack verification
- Heat stack updates
- Validation of Heat services
- Fundamental troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- OpenStack database management
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Compute node status analysis
- Instance status analysis
- AMQP broker (RabbitMQ) analysis
- Metadata services
- General diagnostic approaches for OpenStack issues
- Network issue troubleshooting
- Network performance troubleshooting
- Instance backup and recovery
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Flavour sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly available control plane
- High availability in OpenStack services
- High availability database configurations
- High availability message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Live migration optimisation
- 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
- External monitoring tools
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning / NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customisation
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- OpenStack upgrades
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration capabilities
- Foundational networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of cloud computing principles
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- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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