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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud computing and the history of OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud environments
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid architectures
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparing open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- Third-party integrations
- Understanding the OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Introduction to the virtual machine (VM) lab used in this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Getting acquainted with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud environment
- Understanding daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity management service
- Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
- Administering Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across the cloud
- Configuring image service quotas
- Verifying Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Administering security groups and rules
- East-West routing concepts
- Network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South routing mechanisms
- Floating IP management
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Reviewing networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair management
- Flavour management
- Configuring instance parameters
- Instance creation
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshot operations
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and viewing console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Managing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Administering access control lists (ACLs)
- Configuring object expiration policies
- The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Setting up quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting techniques
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack components
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Inspecting the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Managing Metadata services
- General methodologies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting network performance bottlenecks
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design principles
- Storage design strategies
- Flavour sizing guidelines
- Resource overcommitment practices
- Building a Highly Available control plane
- High Availability (HA) in OpenStack services
- Highly available database configuration
- Highly available message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Utilizing Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration strategies
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tweaking live migration settings
- 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 + Octavia project
- VPNaaS services
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- The Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV technology
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service integration
- Block storage backends
- LVM configuration
- Ceph RBD integration
- Physical appliance integration
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack environments
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade methods
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future trajectory of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration capabilities
- Essential networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of cloud computing paradigms
28 Hours
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