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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- History of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key cloud features
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise deployments, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- System integrations
- OpenStack lifecycle management
- OpenStack certification pathways
- 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)
- Interacting 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
- Verifying Keystone service functionality
- Glance - Image service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across tenants
- Managing quotas for the image service
- Verifying Glance service functionality
- Neutron - Networking
- Core 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
- Managing network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Networking quotas
- Verifying Neutron service functionality
- Nova - Compute service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Key pair management
- Flavor management
- Instance parameter configuration
- Creating instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating and managing snapshots
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and viewing console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Compute quotas
- Gathering statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verifying Nova service functionality
- 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 arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder service functionality
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting up object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage space
- Configuring quotas
- Verifying Swift service functionality
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT) and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat service functionality
- Basic troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack services
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Utilizing metadata services
- General approaches 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 strategies
- Storage design strategies
- Flavor sizing
- Resource overcommitment techniques
- Highly Available control plane
- High Availability in OpenStack services
- Database HA configurations
- Message queue HA configurations
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host aggregates)
- Understanding Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration
- Overview of the Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) + Octavia project
- VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring integration
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata service interactions
- 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
- Familiarity with cloud computing paradigms
28 Hours
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