OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of the cloud and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud infrastructure
• 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
• Various OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack project lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Introduction to the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Familiarization with OpenStack 
  • Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Daemon processes and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Administering the Keystone service catalog and endpoints
  • Creatiing and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image service
  • Image characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Uploading and retrieving images
  • Sharing images across projects
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Validating Glance service functionality
• Neutron - Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing
  • Network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South routing
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Network quota management
  • Validating Neutron service functionality
• Nova - Compute service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Key pair management
  • Flavor management
  • Instance configuration parameters
  • Provisioning instances
  • Verifying launched instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • Instance lifecycle management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Accessing the interactive console and reviewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Configuring compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova service functionality
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume configuration parameters
  • Provisioning volumes
  • Managing existing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Configuring volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • Utilizing LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder service functionality
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift architecture, components, and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists
  • Setting up object expiration policies
  • The Ring mechanism and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Configuring storage quotas
  • Validating Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Understanding Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Provisioning a Heat stack
  • Validating the created Heat stack
  • Updating a Heat stack
  • Validating Heat service functionality