OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
• Key features of cloud infrastructure
• Cloud models
  • Private, public, and hybrid architectures
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models
• Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying tooling
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack service lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Overview of the OpenStack lab (VM) provided for this course

2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop 

• Familiarization with OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Daemon interactions and API communication flows
• Keystone – Identity Management Service
  • Configuration of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Management of Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creation and administration of domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validation of Keystone services
• Glance – Image Service
  • Image characteristics (properties, metadata, format, container)
  • Procedures for uploading and downloading images
  • Image sharing mechanisms
  • Managing image service quotas
  • Verification of Glance services
• Neutron – Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Administration of tenant networks and subnets 
  • Configuration of security groups and rules
  • East-West traffic routing
  • Utilization of network namespaces
  • Management of external and provider networks
  • North-South traffic routing
  • Handling Floating IPs
  • Regulating network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Network quota management
  • Verification of Neutron services
• Nova – Compute Service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Keypair administration
  • Flavor management
  • Instance parameter configuration
  • Provisioning new instances
  • Validating spawned instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance management
  • Association of Floating IPs
  • Accessing interactive consoles and console logs
  • Assignment of security groups
  • Compute quota settings
  • Retrieving statistical data from Nova
  • Integration of Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verification of Nova services
• Cinder – Block Storage
  • Volume parameter configuration
  • Volume creation processes
  • General volume management
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Administration of volume snapshots
  • Management of volume backups
  • Backup restoration procedures
  • Regulating volume quotas
  • Incorporating new storage backends
  • Support for LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Integration of Ceph within OpenStack
  • Verification of Cinder services
• Swift – Object Storage
  • Swift architecture, components, and processes
  • Management of containers and objects
  • Administration of access control lists (ACLs)
  • Configuration of object expiration policies
  • Understanding the Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Setting storage quotas
  • Verification of Swift services
• Heat – Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating new Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat stacks
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Verification of Heat services