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1. Introduction to OpenStack

  • History of cloud computing and OpenStack
  • Key cloud features
  • Cloud deployment models
    • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
    • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  • OpenStack-based public and private cloud deployments
  • Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
  • OpenStack deployment models
  • The OpenStack ecosystem
    • Core modules
    • Underlying tools
    • Integrations
  • The OpenStack lifecycle
  • OpenStack certification paths
  • OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop

  • Understanding OpenStack
    • Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
    • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
    • OpenStack daemons and API communication flow
  • Keystone - Identity management service
    • Understanding domains, projects, users, and roles
    • Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
    • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
    • Verifying Keystone services
  • Glance - Image service
    • Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
    • Uploading and downloading images
    • Sharing images across users
    • Managing quotas for the image service
    • Verifying Glance services
  • Neutron - Networking
    • Basic Neutron network resource types
    • Managing tenant networks and subnets
    • Configuring security groups and rules
    • East-West routing
    • Network namespaces
    • Configuring external/provider networks
    • North-South routing
    • Floating IP management
    • Managing network quotas
    • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
    • Networking quotas
    • Verifying Neutron services
  • Nova - Compute service
    • Interfaces to hypervisors
    • Keypair management
    • Flavor management
    • Instance parameters
    • Creating an instance
    • Verifying spawned instances
    • Snapshotting
    • Instance management
    • Assigning floating IPs
    • Using interactive consoles and console logs
    • Assigning security groups
    • Compute quotas
    • Retrieving statistics from Nova
    • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
    • Verifying 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
    • Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
    • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
    • Verifying Cinder services
  • Swift - Object Storage
    • Swift components and processes
    • Managing containers and objects
    • Managing access control lists (ACLs)
    • Setting up object expiration
    • Understanding Rings and storage policies
    • Monitoring available storage space
    • Setting up quotas
    • Verifying Swift services
  • Heat - Orchestration
    • Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT) and their components
    • Creating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat stacks
    • Updating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat services

Requirements

  • Fundamental Linux administration skills
  • Basic networking knowledge
  • Familiarity with the cloud computing paradigm
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