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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key cloud characteristics
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments using OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack project lifecycle
- OpenStack certification paths
- Course-specific OpenStack lab environment (VM)
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarization with OpenStack
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- Daemon operations and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing mechanisms
- Managing image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Essential 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
- Floating IP management
- Managing network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavor management
- Instance parameters
- Instance creation
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshot creation
- Instance management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Security group assignment
- Compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Backup restoration
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration in OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Access control list management
- Configuring object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage space
- Quota configuration
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Basic Troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- OpenStack database management
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- AMQP broker (RabbitMQ) analysis
- Metadata services
- General strategies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Network problem troubleshooting
- Network performance troubleshooting
- Instance backup and recovery
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavor sizing
- Resource overcommitment strategies
- Highly Available Control Plane
- High availability in OpenStack services
- High availability for databases
- High availability for message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Live migration optimization
- 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
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- Future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Foundational knowledge of cloud computing principles
28 Hours
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