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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- History of cloud technology and OpenStack
- Key features of clouds
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments using OpenStack
- Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment models
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying supporting tools
- Integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification
- OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing the Keystone service catalog and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images
- Managing image service quotas
- Verifying Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Networking quotas
- Verifying Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Keypair management
- Flavor management
- Instance parameters
- Creating instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshotting
- Instance management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Security group assignments
- Compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verifying Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring backups
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration in OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Managing access control lists
- Configuring object expiration
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Setting up quotas
- Verifying Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General methods for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network issues
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavor sizing
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- HA in OpenStack services
- HA database
- HA message queue
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates): why and how
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Tweaking live migration
- 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 + the Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning / NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Essential Linux administration capabilities
- Foundational networking concepts
- Basic understanding of cloud computing principles
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