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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of the cloud and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud computing
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Open-source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tooling
- Integration capabilities
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Course laboratory setup (Virtual Machine)
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Exploring OpenStack
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across projects
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Verifying Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Core 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 (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Monitoring network quotas
- Verifying Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Keypair management
- Flavour configuration
- Instance parameters
- Launching instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating and managing snapshots
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Using interactive consoles and console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Understanding the 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
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting up object expiration policies
- Understanding the Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage space
- Setting up quotas
- Verifying Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) and its components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat services
Requirements
- Foundational skills in Linux administration
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Familiarity with cloud computing principles
14 Hours
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