OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of the cloud and the history of OpenStack
• Key features of cloud computing
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Public and private cloud deployments utilising OpenStack
• Open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying supporting tools
  • Integration options
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Setup of the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Discovering OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • Management of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Configuring Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Verifying Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image Service
  • Image characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing images between projects
  • Managing quotas for the image service
  • Verifying Glance service functionality
• Neutron - Networking
  • Fundamental Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets 
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing concepts
  • Understanding network namespaces
  • Managing external/provider networks
  • North-South routing concepts
  • Managing floating IPs
  • Managing network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Reviewing networking quotas
  • Verifying Neutron service functionality
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Interfaces for communicating with hypervisors
  • Managing keypairs
  • Managing instance flavours
  • Defining instance parameters
  • Provisioning a new instance
  • Verifying spawned instances
  • Creating and managing snapshots
  • General instance management tasks
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Managing compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Working with the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova service functionality
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Configuring volume parameters
  • Creating storage volumes
  • Managing existing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Handling volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Managing volume quotas
  • Integrating new storage backends
  • Using LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph as storage backends
  • Utilising Ceph within OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder service functionality
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift architecture, components, and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
  • Setting up object expiration policies
  • Understanding The Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Configuring storage quotas
  • Verifying Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating a Heat stack
  • Verifying the status of a Heat stack
  • Updating an existing Heat stack
  • Verifying Heat service functionality