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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The history of the cloud and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud computing
- Cloud models
- Private, public, and hybrid
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment models
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Modules
- Underlying tools
- Integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Introduction to the OpenStack lab (VM) used in this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Exploring 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 the Keystone catalogue, services, and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images
- Managing quotas for the image service
- 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/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (e.g., using namespaces, tcpdump)
- Network quota management
- Verifying Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavour management
- Instance parameters
- Creating an instance
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshotting
- Instance administration
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Compute quota configuration
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verifying Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Volume administration
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration with OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Setting object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage space
- Setting up quotas
- Verifying Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- The Heat Orchestration Template and its constituent parts
- Creating a Heat stack
- Verifying the Heat stack
- Updating a Heat stack
- Verifying Heat services
- Fundamental troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General methodologies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavour sizing
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly available control plane
- High availability (HA) in OpenStack services
- HA database configuration
- HA message queue setup
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Tuning live migration
- 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 + Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning / 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
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration capabilities
- Essential networking knowledge
- A basic understanding of the cloud computing paradigm
28 Hours
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