OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud computing
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise infrastructure and service layers (IaaS, PaaS, 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
  • Foundational tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Virtual machine lab environment for this course

2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop 

• Familiarisation with OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
  • Understanding daemon processes and API communication flows
• Keystone: Identity Management
  • Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Configuring 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, and container)
  • Uploading and retrieving images
  • Sharing image resources
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Verifying Glance service functionality
• Neutron: Networking
  • Core Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing concepts
  • Using network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South routing
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Essential network troubleshooting techniques (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Monitoring network quotas
  • Verifying Neutron service functionality
• Nova: Compute Service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Managing key pairs
  • Managing flavours
  • Configuring instance parameters
  • Launching instances
  • Validating created instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and reviewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Configuring compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistical data from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova service functionality
• Cinder: Block Storage
  • Configuring volume parameters
  • Creating storage 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
  • Working with LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Integrating Ceph within OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder service functionality
• Swift: Object Storage
  • Swift components and underlying processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • Understanding Rings and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Configuring storage quotas
  • Verifying Swift service functionality
• Heat: Orchestration
  • Understanding Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat stacks
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat service functionality