OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of the cloud and OpenStack
• Key cloud characteristics
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack
• Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Supporting tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Dedicated OpenStack lab environment (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Exploring OpenStack 
  • Core OpenStack services (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • Domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Administering 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 downloading images
  • Image sharing mechanisms
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Validating Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Fundamental Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing
  • Network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South routing
  • Floating IP management
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Networking quota enforcement
  • Validating Neutron services
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Key pair management
  • Flavour administration
  • Instance configuration parameters
  • Instance creation
  • Verification of created instances
  • Snapshot management
  • Instance lifecycle management
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Interactive console and console log access
  • Applying security groups
  • Compute quota management
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume configuration parameters
  • Volume creation
  • Volume administration
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Backup restoration processes
  • Configuring volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integration of Ceph in OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder services
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • The Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Setting up storage quotas
  • Validating Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stack deployments
  • Updating Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat services