Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- History of the cloud and OpenStack
- Cloud features
- Cloud models
- private, public, hybrid
- on-premise, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments based on OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment models
- OpenStack ecosystem
- Modules
- Underlying tools
- Integrations
- OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification
- OpenStack lab (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- 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
- Getting statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- 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
- LVM, storage array and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph in OpenStack
- Verification of Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists
- Setting up object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- 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
Requirements
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing paradigm
Testimonials
Interaction with the trainer
- UKRI - UK Shared Business Services Ltd
Covered topics of interest in great detail and was able to answer and elaborate on related audience questions.
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
I really appreciated the different exercises. They were adjusted according to the questions so that they better met the points which were relevant for me/us.
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Highly skilled trainer, interactive exercises where the trainer can see the desktop
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Playing around in a non production environment.
Tele 2 Sverige AB
The paste, all the information I got.
Tele 2 Sverige AB
I like that we before the training had some meetings to discuss what parts we should focus on, and what is interesting for us at Tele2.
Tele 2 Sverige AB
The varied topics
Daniel Lindh - Tele 2 Sverige AB
The network parts.
Polystar OSIX
The virtual desktop in a browser feature was kind of neat.
Mikael Karlsson - Polystar OSIX
Damian, is very skilled, I'm very pleased with everything, no complains, best training session I've participated in for a long time… It's very difficult to have a training course like this, totally remote, you did a great job, It went very well, there were no issues.
Peter Erlandsson - Polystar OSIX
The flexibility to answer questions. Good pdf, good examples
Conny Vigström - Polystar OSIX
A good mix of hands on exercises and lectures!
Polystar OSIX
The broad perspective of Openstack, no chance to dive in to deep to be able to keep schedule, more to where to get information from.
Jörgen Selegran - Polystar OSIX
It was very easy communication during all the course, got answers and help in very pedagogical manner. The trainer is very experienced, I recommend him anyone who is interested in getting good knowledge in this very complicated area :-)
Polystar OSIX
To get a better understanding about OpenStack.
Jan Gustafsson - Polystar OSIX
Depth of knowledge. A true SME in Openstack. Patient and very helpful. Explained complex topics in an understandable and digestible way.
Jake McIlwaine - Sam Bultitude, Gamma
The trainer was extremely knowledgable and helpful. While walking through the exercises, I wasn't rushed and was allowed to make mistakes (to a point) and then help was given to correct to them where needed.