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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. OpenStack Fundamentals
- Evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Different OpenStack deployment strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tooling
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack project lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathway
- Introduction to the course-specific OpenStack lab environment (VM)
2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Understanding the OpenStack architecture
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with an OpenStack cloud
- Daemon operations and API communication flows
- Keystone: Identity and Access Management
- Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
- Configuring Keystone service catalogue and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance: Image Management Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and retrieving images
- Sharing images across tenants
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron: Networking Services
- Core Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West traffic routing
- Understanding network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South traffic routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network diagnostics (using tools like namespaces and tcpdump)
- Reviewing networking quota settings
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova: Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Managing key pairs
- Configuring instance flavours
- Instance configuration parameters
- Provisioning a new instance
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- General instance lifecycle management
- Associating Floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and reviewing logs
- Applying security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving performance statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder: Block Storage Service
- Volume configuration parameters
- Provisioning a volume
- Managing existing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Handling volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph within OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift: Object Storage Service
- Swift architecture and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting up object expiration policies
- Understanding the Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring storage quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat: Orchestration Service
- Anatomy of Heat Orchestration Templates
- Creating a Heat stack
- Verifying Heat stack status
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Fundamental Troubleshooting Techniques
- Interpreting log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client requests
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Creating OpenStack backups
- Assessing compute node health
- Analyzing instance status
- Inspecting the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Managing metadata services
- Systematic approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Resolving network connectivity problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Architectural Topics
- Hardware Planning and Capacity Management
- Selecting compute hardware
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Determining appropriate flavour sizes
- Strategies for resource overcommitment
- Building a Highly Available Control Plane
- High availability implementation in OpenStack services
- Highly available database configurations
- Highly available message queue setups
- Cloud Partitioning and Scheduling
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Utilizing Nova scheduler filters
- Workload Migration Strategies
- Cold versus live migration
- Optimizing live migration performance
- Overview of the Watcher project
- Advanced OpenStack Networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugin options
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Concepts of Distributed Virtual Routers
- Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) with Octavia
- VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)
- OpenStack Monitoring and Telemetry
- Utilizing the Ceilometer service
- Integrating external monitoring tools
- Advanced Cloud and Hypervisor Features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Cloud-init and Image Customization
- Interacting with the Metadata Service
- Block Storage Backend Options
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Ceph RBD integration
- Using physical storage appliances
- Considerations for storage network design
- OpenStack Upgrade Procedures
- Upgrade strategies and operational steps
- Achieving zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-Metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- Overview of the Ironic module
- Understanding Undercloud and Overcloud concepts
- The Future Direction of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux system administration experience
- Core networking concepts
- Basic understanding of cloud computing models
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