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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- History of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud technology
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments using OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- Integration points
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification paths
- Virtual machine lab setup for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Exploring OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying Keystone service functionality
- Glance - Image Service
- Image characteristics (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing mechanisms
- Managing image service quotas
- Verifying Glance service functionality
- Neutron - Networking
- Types of Neutron network resources
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South routing
- Handling floating IPs
- Managing network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
- Network quota management
- Verifying Neutron service functionality
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Key pair management
- Flavor management
- Instance parameters
- Creating instances
- Verifying newly spawned instances
- Creating instance snapshots
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs to instances
- Using interactive consoles and viewing console logs
- Assigning security groups
- Managing compute quotas
- Gathering statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verifying Nova service functionality
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters
- Creating volumes
- Volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder service functionality
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and operational processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting object expiration policies
- Understanding Rings and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Setting up storage quotas
- Verifying Swift service functionality
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) and its components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack deployments
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat service functionality
- Foundational Troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack environments
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Understanding metadata services
- General strategies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network problems
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
3. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design principles
- Storage design principles
- Flavor sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment techniques
- Highly Available (HA) control plane
- Implementing HA in OpenStack services
- HA database configurations
- HA message queue setups
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Utilizing Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Optimizing live migration parameters
- Overview of the Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack Networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types: local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS and the Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack Monitoring and Telemetry
- Overview of the Ceilometer service
- External monitoring integrations
- Advanced Cloud and Hypervisor Features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV implementation
- Cloud-init and Image Customization
- Metadata Service functionality
- Block Storage Backends
- LVM configuration
- Ceph RBD setup
- Physical appliance integration
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Executing zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- Understanding the Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The Future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge
- Familiarity with the cloud computing paradigm
28 Hours
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