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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- History of the cloud and OpenStack
- Key cloud features
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack
- Open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- Integrations
- OpenStack project lifecycle
- OpenStack certification
- OpenStack lab environment (VM) setup for this course
2. Managing OpenStack Cloud in Practice
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- Key OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Service catalog and endpoints
- Configuration files for CLI clients (openrc and clouds.yaml)
- Creating users and projects
- Glance - Image Service
- Images customized for the cloud environment
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Neutron - Networking
- Overview of Neutron architecture
- ML2 plugins for Neutron
- Basic Neutron network resource types
- Networking at the Compute Node
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- East-West routing
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Managing security groups and rules
- Anti-spoofing and port security
- Networking quotas
- Verifying Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Nova architecture
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Key pair management
- Flavor management
- Instance parameters
- Creating instances
- Instance management
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Interactive console and console log
- Assigning security groups
- Accessing instances via the metadata namespace
- Capturing instance interface traffic using tcpdump
- Live migration of VMs
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
3. Deep Dive into Neutron and its OVN Backend
- OVN architecture
- OVN components
- Comparison of ML2 drivers: OVN vs. OvS
- Top-down OVN networking approach
- OpenStack logic (Neutron database)
- Northbound database
- Southbound database
- Logical datapath pipelines
- Logical flows
- OpenFlow flows
- Neutron networks and OVN logical switches
- Logical ports and their types
- Switching flows
- Neutron routers and OVN logical routers
- NAT types
- Routing flows
- Neutron subnets and native DHCP
- DHCP flows
- Security groups in OVN
- ACLs and Port Groups
- Security group flows
- Port security in OVN
- Overview of OVN Northbound tables
- Information flow within OVN
- Neutron DB, OVN NB and SB DB, and OpenFlow at OvS
- Tracing logical flows
- Defining microflows
- L2 tracing
- L3 tracing
- DHCP tracing
- Physical flows and OpenFlow
- Physical lifecycle of a VM-originated packet
- Physical tracing
- Tracing hypothetical packets
- Tracing real packets
- Displaying Open vSwitch database and resources
Requirements
- Strong foundation in networking principles
- Basic understanding of the cloud computing paradigm
- Practical experience in administering Linux operating systems
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