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 Duration 28 hours

Course Outline

1. Introduction to OpenStack

  • The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
  • Key cloud features
  • Cloud deployment models
    • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
    • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  • Public and private cloud implementations using OpenStack
  • Open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
  • Various OpenStack deployment models
  • The OpenStack ecosystem
    • Core modules
    • Underlying supporting tools
    • Third-party integrations
  • The OpenStack lifecycle
  • OpenStack certification pathway
  • Dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for course exercises

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

  • Familiarizing with OpenStack 
    • 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 Keystone catalog services and endpoints
    • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
    • Verifying Keystone service health
  • Glance - Image service
    • Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
    • Uploading and downloading images
    • Sharing images across tenants
    • Managing image service quotas
    • Verifying Glance service health
  • Neutron - Networking
    • Basic Neutron network resource types
    • Managing tenant networks and subnets
    • Configuring security groups and rules
    • East-West traffic routing
    • Network namespaces
    • Managing external/provider networks
    • North-South traffic routing
    • Floating IP management
    • Managing network quotas
    • Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
    • Networking quota enforcement
    • Verifying Neutron service health
  • Nova - Compute service
    • Hypervisor interfaces
    • Key pair management
    • Flavor management
    • Instance configuration parameters
    • Creating instances
    • Validating spawned instances
    • Snapshotting capabilities
    • Instance lifecycle management
    • Assigning floating IPs
    • Interactive console and console logs
    • Security group assignment
    • Compute quota management
    • Retrieving statistics from Nova
    • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
    • Verifying Nova service health
  • Cinder - Block Storage
    • Volume configuration parameters
    • Creating volumes
    • Managing volume properties
    • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
    • Managing volume snapshots
    • Managing volume backups
    • Restoring from backups
    • Managing volume quotas
    • Adding new storage backends
    • LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
    • Ceph integration within OpenStack
    • Verifying Cinder service health
  • Swift - Object Storage
    • Swift components and processes
    • Managing containers and objects
    • Configuring access control lists
    • Setting up object expiration rules
    • The Ring and storage policies
    • Monitoring available storage capacity
    • Configuring quotas
    • Verifying Swift service health
  • Heat - Orchestration
    • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
    • Creating Heat stacks
    • Validating Heat stacks
    • Updating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat service health
  • Basic troubleshooting techniques
    • Analyzing log files
    • Centralized logging strategies
    • Debugging OpenStack client queries
    • Managing the OpenStack database
    • Backing up OpenStack configurations
    • Analyzing compute node status
    • Analyzing instance status
    • Analyzing AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
    • Metadata services
    • General methodologies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
    • Troubleshooting network connectivity issues
    • Troubleshooting network performance
    • Instance backup and recovery procedures

3. Advanced Topics

  • Hardware considerations and capacity planning
    • Compute hardware requirements
    • Network design principles
    • Storage architecture design
    • Flavor sizing strategies
    • Resource overcommitment
  • Highly Available control plane
    • Implementing HA in OpenStack services
    • HA database configuration
    • HA message queue setup
  • Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
    • Implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates): why and how
    • Nova scheduler filters
  • Workload migration strategies
    • Cold and live migration
    • Optimizing 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 tools
  • Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
    • CPU pinning and 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
  • The future of OpenStack

Requirements

  • Fundamental Linux administration skills
  • Basic understanding of networking
  • Foundational knowledge of cloud computing concepts

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