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Course Outline

1. Introduction to OpenStack

  • Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
  • Key features of cloud environments
  • Cloud deployment models
    • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
    • On-premise deployments, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  • Public and private cloud deployments using OpenStack
  • Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
  • OpenStack deployment architectures
  • The OpenStack ecosystem
    • Core modules
    • Supporting tools
    • Integration capabilities
  • OpenStack lifecycle management
  • OpenStack certification pathways
  • Overview of the OpenStack lab (VM) provided for this course

2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop

  • Understanding OpenStack
    • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
    • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
    • OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
  • Keystone - Identity Management Service
    • Understanding domains, projects, users, and roles
    • Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
    • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
    • Verifying Keystone service integrity
  • Glance - Image Service
    • Image properties, metadata, formats, and container types
    • Uploading and downloading images
    • Sharing images across users
    • Configuring quotas for the image service
    • Verifying Glance service functionality
  • Neutron - Networking
    • Types of Neutron network resources
    • Configuring tenant networks and subnets
    • Managing security groups and access rules
    • East-West routing configuration
    • Network namespaces
    • Configuring external and provider networks
    • North-South routing setup
    • Managing Floating IPs
    • Setting network quotas
    • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
    • Monitoring and managing networking quotas
    • Verifying Neutron service status
  • Nova - Compute Service
    • Interfaces connecting to hypervisors
    • Key pair management
    • Flavor management
    • Configuring instance parameters
    • Creating virtual instances
    • Verifying launched instances
    • Creating and managing snapshots
    • Instance lifecycle management
    • Assigning Floating IPs to instances
    • Accessing interactive consoles and logs
    • Assigning security groups to instances
    • Managing compute quotas
    • Gathering statistics from Nova
    • Understanding Placement API and Nova Cells v2
    • Verifying Nova service health
  • Cinder - Block Storage
    • Configuring volume parameters
    • Creating storage volumes
    • Managing existing volumes
    • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
    • Managing volume snapshots
    • Managing and creating volume backups
    • Restoring data from backups
    • Setting volume quotas
    • Adding new storage backends
    • Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
    • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
    • Verifying Cinder service operations
  • Swift - Object Storage
    • 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 space
    • Configuring storage quotas
    • Verifying Swift service functionality
  • Heat - Orchestration
    • Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) structure and components
    • Creating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat stack creation
    • Updating existing Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat service status

Requirements

  • Fundamental Linux administration skills
  • Basic networking knowledge
  • Understanding of cloud computing concepts
 14 Hours

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