OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud services
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid architectures
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS frameworks
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Different approaches to deploying OpenStack
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Foundational tools
  • Integration capabilities
• The OpenStack project lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Preparation of the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop

• Familiarization with OpenStack
  • Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Administration of the Keystone service catalog and endpoints
  • Creation and management of domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validation of Keystone services
• Glance - Image service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Procedures for uploading and downloading images
  • Mechanisms for sharing images
  • Configuration of image service quotas
  • Validation of Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Administration of tenant networks and subnets
  • Management of security groups and rules
  • East-West routing strategies
  • Use of network namespaces
  • Configuration of external and provider networks
  • North-South routing mechanisms
  • Management of floating IPs
  • Control of network quotas
  • Foundational network troubleshooting techniques (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Network quota management
  • Validation of Neutron services
• Nova - Compute service
  • Interfaces to hypervisors
  • Management of keypairs
  • Management of instance flavours
  • Definition of instance parameters
  • Process for creating an instance
  • Verification of newly spawned instances
  • Snapshot creation and management
  • General instance administration
  • Assignment of floating IPs
  • Use of interactive consoles and console logs
  • Assignment of security groups
  • Management of compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistical data from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2 implementation
  • Validation of Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Configuration of volume parameters
  • Process for creating volumes
  • General volume management
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Management of volume snapshots
  • Handling of volume backups
  • Restoration of backups
  • Control of volume quotas
  • Integration of new storage backends
  • Utilization of LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Implementation of Ceph within OpenStack
  • Validation of Cinder services
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and internal processes
  • Management of containers and objects
  • Configuration of access control lists
  • Setup of object expiration policies
  • The Ring mechanism and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Configuration of storage quotas
  • Validation of Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Process for creating a Heat stack
  • Verification of the created Heat stack
  • Procedures for updating a Heat stack
  • Validation of Heat services