OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of cloud technology and the OpenStack project
• Key features of cloud computing
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Implementation of public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying supporting tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack project lifecycle
• OpenStack certification paths
• Dedicated OpenStack laboratory (VM) setup for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Exploring the OpenStack landscape 
  • Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Daemon operations and API communication workflows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Administration of Keystone service catalogue and endpoints
  • Creation and management of domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validation of Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image Service
  • Image attributes including properties, metadata, formats, and containers
  • Procedures for uploading and downloading images
  • Mechanisms for sharing images
  • Quota management for the image service
  • Verification of Glance service operations
• Neutron - Networking
  • Fundamental Neutron network resource types
  • Management of tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuration of security groups and rules
  • East-West routing concepts
  • Use of network namespaces
  • Management of external and provider networks
  • North-South routing configurations
  • Administration of Floating IPs
  • Network quota management
  • Essential network troubleshooting techniques (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Review of networking quotas
  • Verification of Neutron service functionality
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Interfaces for hypervisor interaction
  • Keypair management procedures
  • Management of compute flavours
  • Configuration of instance parameters
  • Process for creating new instances
  • Verification of deployed instances
  • Snapshot management
  • General instance administration
  • Assignment of Floating IPs
  • Utilization of the interactive console and console logs
  • Application of security groups
  • Compute quota management
  • Retrieving statistical data from Nova
  • Integration with the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verification of Nova service operations
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Configuration of volume parameters
  • Procedure for creating storage volumes
  • General volume management
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Management of volume snapshots
  • Administration of volume backups
  • Process for restoring backups
  • Volume quota management
  • Integration of new storage backends
  • Support for LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Implementation of Ceph within OpenStack
  • Verification of Cinder service functionality
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Overview of Swift components and processes
  • Management of containers and objects
  • Configuration of access control lists
  • Setup of object expiration policies
  • The Ring mechanism and storage policies
  • Monitoring of available storage capacity
  • Configuration of storage quotas
  • Verification of Swift service operations
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Structure and components of Heat Orchestration Templates
  • Procedure for creating a Heat stack
  • Validation of the deployed Heat stack
  • Process for updating a Heat stack
  • Verification of Heat service functionality