OpenStack Training in Cape Town

This course is designed to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the OpenStack environment, covering both operational and administrative perspectives. Following a concise introduction to cloud computing, you will be provided with your own OpenStack instance to perform practical, hands-on tasks. The curriculum spans all fundamental components of OpenStack, from high-level architecture to detailed cloud administration. With approximately 75% of the course dedicated to practical workshops in a live OpenStack environment, you will gain valuable real-world experience.

This course offers comprehensive training on OpenStack. It begins with an introduction to the system, followed by hands-on workshops that provide practical knowledge for managing private clouds based on OpenStack. The curriculum also covers troubleshooting and advanced architectural topics. The primary objective is to familiarise learners with the OpenStack ecosystem while providing a strong foundation for further expansion and refinement of OpenStack clouds. The course includes all necessary topics to help candidates achieve the OpenStack Administrator Certificate. Approximately 75% of the course is dedicated to hands-on workshops within a real OpenStack training environment.

This intensive OpenStack training provides practical, hands-on experience in deploying, managing, troubleshooting, and optimising private cloud environments based on OpenStack. Designed as an extended bootcamp, the course covers core administration topics, real-world troubleshooting scenarios, and advanced architectural concepts aligned with the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam objectives. With seventy-five percent workshop-based learning in a live OpenStack lab, participants build the skills needed to confidently administer and further develop enterprise OpenStack infrastructures.

This course provides in-depth training on OpenStack networking. It begins with an introduction to OpenStack and its architecture, followed by an overview of core OpenStack projects—Identity service (Keystone), Image service (Glance), Compute service (Nova), and Block storage (Cinder)—to contextualise the networking environment within OpenStack, with a primary focus on the Networking project (Neutron). The curriculum covers virtual network infrastructure based on the Open Virtual Network project, Open vSwitch, and OpenFlow. The objective is to help participants grasp the fundamental operations and architecture of OpenStack, while becoming familiar with the various networking technologies underpinning it, including detailed insights into OVN, its underlying flows, resources, and tools.

Customization options

The training can be contracted to 2 days, concentrating on core aspects relevant to the customer. It can also be extended to cover administrative, design, networking, and/or troubleshooting topics related to OpenStack deployments. Additionally, other underlying SDN solutions such as Linux Bridge or OvS can be discussed.

This instructor-led, live training in Cape Town (online or onsite) is designed for DevOps engineers and developers who want to deploy and manage OpenStack services within cloud infrastructures using Kubernetes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Deploy, configure, and manage MOS and its components.
• Access OpenStack APIs.
• Perform common OpenStack operational tasks, such as backup and restore.
• Upgrade OpenStack deployments.

This training programme serves as a thorough introduction to OpenStack. It commences with a system introduction, proceeds to practical knowledge acquisition via hands-on workshops for managing OpenStack-based private clouds, and concludes with troubleshooting and advanced architectural topics. The objective is to familiarise learners with the OpenStack ecosystem while providing a robust foundation for the continued expansion and refinement of OpenStack clouds. The syllabus covers all necessary topics required to sit for the OpenStack Administrator certification examination.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators and infrastructure engineers who wish to design, deploy, and manage private OpenStack cloud infrastructure for enterprise environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to understand OpenStack architecture, deploy private cloud infrastructure, manage compute and storage resources, implement security with Keystone, and apply enterprise best practices.