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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud implementations using OpenStack
- Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- Different models for deploying OpenStack
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying supporting tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Setup of the OpenStack lab environment (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing with OpenStack
- Overview of core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing the Keystone service catalogue and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across projects
- Configuring image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Essential Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Understanding network namespaces
- Managing external or provider networks
- North-South routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Reviewing networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Managing keypairs
- Flavor management
- Instance parameters
- Creating instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- Managing instances
- 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 arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph into OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Setting up object expiration policies
- Understanding the Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Basic Troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Diagnosing AMQP broker (RabbitMQ) issues
- Understanding metadata services
- General strategies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network connectivity
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Sizing flavors appropriately
- Managing resource overcommitment
- Highly Available Control Plane
- Implementing HA in OpenStack services
- High-availability database setup
- High-availability message queue configuration
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Using Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration strategies
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration
- Introduction to 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
- Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) + Octavia project
- VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- The Ceilometer service
- Integrating external monitoring tools
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Using the Metadata Service
- Block storage backend options
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Ceph RBD
- Physical storage appliances
- Storage network design considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Achieving zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future trajectory of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of networking principles
- Familiarity with cloud computing paradigms
28 Hours
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