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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- History of the cloud and OpenStack
- Core cloud features
- Cloud models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments using OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment models
- OpenStack ecosystem
- Key modules
- Underlying tools
- Integrations
- OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification paths
- OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Getting to know OpenStack
- OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interaction with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication flow
- Keystone - Identity management service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verification of Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image features (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images
- Managing image service quotas
- Verification 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
- Verification of Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Keypair management
- Flavour management
- Instance parameters
- Creating an instance
- Verification of spawned instances
- Snapshotting
- Instance management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console log access
- Security groups assignment
- Compute quotas
- Gathering statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verification of Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring backups
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration in OpenStack
- Verification of Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists
- Setting up object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage space
- Setting up quotas
- Verification of Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template and its components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verification of Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Verification of Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General approach to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network problems
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavour sizing
- Resource overcommitment strategies
- Highly Available control plane
- HA implementation in OpenStack services
- Highly available database
- Highly available message queue
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Optimizing live migration
- Watcher project overview
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- 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 solutions
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and 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
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Foundational networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of the cloud computing paradigm
28 Hours
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