OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud computing
• Cloud deployment models
  • private, public, hybrid
  • on-premise, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Foundational tools
  • Integration capabilities
• Understanding the OpenStack lifecycle
• Overview of OpenStack certification
• Accessing the dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop

• Introduction to the OpenStack landscape
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Understanding daemon interactions and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity Service
  • Managing 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, format, container)
  • Uploading and retrieving images
  • Image sharing procedures
  • Configuring image service quotas
  • Verifying Glance service operations
• Neutron - Networking
  • Fundamental Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing concepts
  • Utilizing network namespaces
  • Handling external and provider networks
  • North-South routing mechanisms
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Setting network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Network quota management
  • Validating Neutron service integrity
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Key pair administration
  • Flavour management
  • Instance configuration parameters
  • Instance creation
  • Verifying instantiated instances
  • Snapshot operations
  • General instance management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Using interactive consoles and reviewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Compute resource quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Overview of the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova service health
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume configuration parameters
  • Volume creation
  • Volume administration
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Handling volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Volume quota management
  • Integrating new storage backends
  • LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Ceph integration within OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder service status
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processing workflows
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • Ring architecture and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Quota configuration
  • Verifying Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Analyzing Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verifying stack deployment
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat service operations