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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud services
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud implementations using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment architectures
- The broader OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Supporting underlying tools
- Third-party integrations
- OpenStack operational lifecycle
- OpenStack professional certification
- Dedicated OpenStack lab environment (VM) for coursework
2. OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing with OpenStack operations
- Key OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
- Communication flow between OpenStack daemons and APIs
- Keystone - Identity management
- Configuration of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Administration of Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creation and management of domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validation of Keystone service functionality
- Glance - Image management
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Processes for uploading and downloading images
- Strategies for sharing images
- Configuration of image service quotas
- Verification of Glance service health
- Neutron - Network services
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Management of tenant networks and subnets
- Configuration of security groups and rules
- East-West routing mechanisms
- Utilization of network namespaces
- Management of external and provider networks
- North-South routing configuration
- Handling of floating IPs
- Administration of network quotas
- Essential network diagnostics (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota management
- Validation of Neutron service status
- Nova - Compute services
- Hypervisor interface management
- Keypair administration
- Flavour configuration
- Instance parameter settings
- Instance creation procedures
- Verification of deployed instances
- Snapshot management
- General instance administration
- Assignment of floating IPs
- Use of interactive console and console logs
- Assignment of security groups
- Compute quota management
- Retrieving statistical data from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
- Verification of Nova service health
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume configuration parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume management tasks
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Management of volume snapshots
- Volume backup administration
- Backup restoration procedures
- Volume quota management
- Integration of new storage backends
- Use of LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
- Ceph integration within OpenStack
- Verification of Cinder service health
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift architectural components and processes
- Administration of containers and objects
- Management of access control lists (ACLs)
- Configuration of object expiration rules
- The Ring and storage policy implementation
- Monitoring of available storage capacity
- Quota configuration
- Verification of Swift service health
- Heat - Orchestration
- Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creation of Heat stacks
- Validation of Heat stack integrity
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Verification of Heat service health
- Foundational Troubleshooting
- Analysis of log files
- Implementation of centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client requests
- Administration of OpenStack databases
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Assessment of compute node status
- Analysis of instance state
- Inspection of AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata service diagnostics
- General methodologies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Resolving network connectivity problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery strategies
3. Advanced Topics
- Hardware requirements and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network architecture design
- Storage system design
- Flavour sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment practices
- Highly Available control plane
- Implementing HA across OpenStack services
- High Availability for databases
- High Availability for message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and methods for implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Configuration of Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration strategies
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Optimization of live migration
- Utilization of the Watcher project
- Detailed OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE)
- Neutron plugin options
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) and the Octavia project
- Virtual Private Network as a Service (VPNaaS)
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Utilization of the Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service integration
- Block storage backend options
- LVM configuration
- Ceph RBD integration
- Use of physical storage appliances
- Storage network considerations
- OpenStack upgrade procedures
- Upgrade strategies and step-by-step procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade implementation
- Bare-metal provisioning using OpenStack
- Integration of the Ironic module
- Concepts of undercloud and overcloud
- Future development of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration capabilities
- Basic understanding of network architecture
- Introductory knowledge of cloud computing concepts
28 Hours
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