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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of the cloud and OpenStack
- Key cloud characteristics
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid environments
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud implementations using OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying supporting tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
- OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing the Keystone catalogue, services, and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing procedures
- Managing image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Core 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
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Networking quota management
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavour management
- Instance configuration parameters
- Instance creation process
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshotting capabilities
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Security group assignments
- Compute resource quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Volume creation
- Volume management tasks
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Backup restoration procedures
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processing workflows
- Managing containers and objects
- Access control list management
- Configuring object expiration
- The Ring concept and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Setting up storage quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack deployment
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Essential troubleshooting techniques
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack data
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing AMQP brokers (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General diagnostic approaches for OpenStack issues
- Resolving network connectivity problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery strategies
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Flavour sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment policies
- Highly Available control plane
- High Availability (HA) in OpenStack services
- HA database configuration
- HA message queue setup
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Configuring Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration strategies
- Cold and live migration
- Tweaking live migration performance
- 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 and the Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Using the Ceilometer service
- Integrating external monitoring tools
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- The Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical storage appliances
- Storage network design considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade implementation
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational skills in Linux administration
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Familiarity with cloud computing paradigms
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