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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud environments
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Provisioning the course-specific OpenStack lab (VM)
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Exploring the OpenStack platform
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- Daemon operations and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity management services
- Understanding domains, projects, users, and roles
- Administering Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creatin and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone service functionality
- Glance - Image service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, and containers)
- Uploading and downloading virtual machine images
- Sharing images across users
- Configuring image service quotas
- Verifying Glance service integrity
- Neutron - Networking
- Essential Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West traffic routing
- Utilizing network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South traffic routing
- Assigning and managing floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network diagnostics (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Reviewing networking quota limits
- Validating Neutron service performance
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Managing SSH key pairs
- Defining and managing instance flavours
- Instance configuration parameters
- Provisioning new instances
- Verifying created instances
- Creating snapshots
- General instance management tasks
- Assigning floating IPs to instances
- Accessing interactive consoles and viewing logs
- Applying security groups
- Managing compute quotas
- Retrieving statistical data from Nova
- Using the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Confirming Nova service health
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume configuration parameters
- Creating storage volumes
- Administering existing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Configuring volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Setting volume quotas
- Integrating new storage backends
- Using LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
- Implementing Ceph within OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder service status
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift architecture and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Setting object expiration policies
- Understanding Rings and storage policies
- Monitoring storage capacity
- Implementing object storage quotas
- Validating Swift service operations
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their structure
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying stack deployment
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Confirming Heat service functionality
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux system administration capabilities
- Essential understanding of networking principles
- General familiarity with cloud computing concepts
14 Hours
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