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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud infrastructure
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack
- Open-source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack service lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for course exercises
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarizing with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity management service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image characteristics (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images between users
- Configuring image service quotas
- Verifying 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
- Managing network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota configuration
- Verifying Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair management
- Flavour management
- Instance parameters
- Instance creation
- Verifying launched instances
- Snapshot management
- General instance management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Applying security groups
- Compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verifying Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration within OpenStack
- Verifying 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
- Configuring storage quotas
- Verifying Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Centralized logging setup
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack data
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General diagnostic approaches for OpenStack issues
- Resolving network problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network design principles
- Storage architecture design
- Flavour sizing optimization
- Resource overcommitment strategies
- Highly Available control plane
- HA implementation in OpenStack services
- High-availability databases
- High-availability message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Live migration tuning
- The Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3h)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS and the Octavia project
- 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
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge
- Understanding of the cloud computing paradigm
28 Hours
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