Preparation for Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack 

• History
  • History of cloud and OpenStack
• Cloud features
• Cloud models
  • Private, Public, Hybrid
• Clouds based on OpenStack
  • Public clouds
  • Private cloud deployments
• Distributions
  • Open source
  • Commercial
• Deployment models
  • Manual
  • Configuration management
• OpenStack ecosystem
  • Modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Integrations
• OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification
• OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands on with Certified OpenStack Administrator

• Getting to know OpenStack 
  • OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interaction with OpenStack cloud
  • OpenStack daemons and API communication flow
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Domains, projects, users and roles
  • Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  • Manage/Create domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Verification of Keystone services
• Glance - Image service
  • Image features (properties, metadata, format, container)
  • Uploading and downloading image
  • Sharing images
  • Manage quotas for image service
  • Verification of Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Basic Neutron network resource types
  • Manage tenant networks, subnets, 
  • Manage security groups and rules
  • East-West routing
  • Network namespaces
  • Manage external/provider networks
  • North-South routing
  • Floating IPs management
  • Manage network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Networking quotas
  • Verification of Neutron services
• Nova - Compute service
  • Interfaces to hypervisors
  • Keypair management
  • Flavour management
  • Instance parameters
  • Creating an instance
  • Verification of spawned instances
  • Snapshotting
  • Instance management
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Interactive console and console log
  • Security groups assignment
  • Compute quotas
  • Verification of Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume parameters
  • Creating volume
  • Manage volume
  • Attaching volume to Nova instance
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring backups
  • Managing volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backend
  • Verification of Cinder services
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Managing access control lists
  • Setting up object expiration
  • Monitoring available storage space
  • Setting up quotas
  • Verification of Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Template and its components
  • Creating Heat stack
  • Verification of Heat stack
  • Updating Heat stack
  • Verification of Heat services
• Troubleshooting
  • Analyzing log files
  • Centralized logging
  • Debugging OpenStack client queries
  • Managing OpenStack database
  • Analyzing compute node status
  • Analyzing instance status
  • Analyzing AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
  • Metadata services
  • General way of diagnosing OpenStack issues
  • Troubleshooting network problems
  • Troubleshooting network performance
  • Instance backup and recovery

3. Certified OpenStack administrator mock exam

• Overview of the exam
• Examination procedures
• Instructor guided exam