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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key cloud characteristics
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premises, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Deploying 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 project lifecycle
- Information on OpenStack certifications
- Setup of the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarising yourself with OpenStack
- Overview of OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud environment
- Understanding daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - The Identity Management Service
- Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying the status of Keystone services
- Glance - The Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, and containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across users
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Verifying the status of Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Essential Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing concepts
- Utilisation of network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South routing mechanisms
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Review of networking quotas
- Verifying the status of Neutron services
- Nova - The Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Managing keypairs
- Flavour management and configuration
- Defining instance parameters
- Creating virtual instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- General instance management
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Accessing the interactive console and console logs
- Applying security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
- Verifying the status of Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters and specifications
- Creating volumes
- General volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Handling volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- Using LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph as backends
- Integration of Ceph in OpenStack
- Verifying the status of Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and background processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting up object expiration policies
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring quotas
- Verifying the status of Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Understanding Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Verifying the status of Heat services
- Basic Troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files for errors
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Performing OpenStack backups
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Monitoring the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Reviewing metadata services
- General methodologies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network connectivity problems
- Troubleshooting network performance issues
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Flavour sizing best practices
- Resource overcommitment strategies
- Highly Available (HA) control plane
- Implementing HA in OpenStack services
- High Availability for databases
- High Availability for message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Reasons and methods for implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Configuring Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration performance
- 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 and the Octavia project
- VPNaaS implementation
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- The Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV technology
- Cloud-init and image customization
- The Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM configuration
- Ceph RBD integration
- Physical storage appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Achieving zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future direction of OpenStack
Requirements
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing paradigms
28 Hours
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