OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud services
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid environments
  • On-premise infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Different OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying support tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack service lifecycle
• Overview of OpenStack certification paths
• Setup of the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Exploring OpenStack fundamentals 
  • Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Communication flows between OpenStack daemons and APIs
• Keystone – Identity Management Service
  • Configuration of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Administering Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone service functionality
• Glance – Image Service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Processes for uploading and retrieving images
  • Image sharing procedures
  • Configuring image service quotas
  • Verification of Glance services
• Neutron – Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Administration of tenant networks and subnets
  • Management of security groups and rules
  • East-West traffic routing
  • Use of network namespaces
  • Configuration of external and provider networks
  • North-South traffic routing
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Setting network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Network quota enforcement
  • Verification of Neutron services
• Nova – Compute Service
  • Hypervisor interface management
  • Key pair administration
  • Flavor management
  • Instance parameter configuration
  • Instance creation procedures
  • Verification of newly spawned instances
  • Snapshot creation
  • General instance administration
  • Assignment of Floating IPs
  • Accessing the interactive console and console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Compute quota management
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verification of Nova services
• Cinder – Block Storage
  • Volume parameter configuration
  • Volume creation
  • General volume administration
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Handling volume backups
  • Backup restoration procedures
  • Volume quota management
  • Integrating new storage backends
  • Utilizing LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph as backends
  • Ceph integration within OpenStack
  • Verification of Cinder services
• Swift – Object Storage
  • Swift architectural components and processes
  • Container and object management
  • Access control list configuration
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • The Ring mechanism and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Quota configuration
  • Verification of Swift services
• Heat – Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Template structure and components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat stack deployment
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Verification of Heat services