OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Overview of OpenStack

• Evolution of cloud technology and the origins of OpenStack
• Key attributes of cloud infrastructure
• Deployment models and service categories
  • Private, public, and hybrid cloud configurations
  • On-premise hosting, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core functional modules
  • Foundational supporting tools
  • Third-party integrations
• Understanding the OpenStack project lifecycle
• Professional OpenStack certification pathways
• Introduction to the dedicated OpenStack lab environment (VM) for this course

2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop 

• Core OpenStack mechanics 
  • Overview of key services (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud platform
  • Understanding daemon processes and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • Managing domains, projects, users, and role assignments
  • Configuring Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creating and administering domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating the functionality of Keystone services
• Glance - Image Service
  • Understanding image properties, metadata, formats, and containers
  • Procedures for uploading and retrieving images
  • Mechanisms for sharing images across users
  • Setting and managing quotas for the image service
  • Verifying the integrity and function of Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Foundational Neutron network resource types
  • Administration of tenant networks and subnets 
  • Configuration of security groups and associated rules
  • East-West internal routing
  • Utilizing network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South external routing
  • Allocation and management of Floating IPs
  • Regulating network resource quotas
  • Basic troubleshooting techniques for networking (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Enforcement of networking quotas
  • Verification of Neutron service health
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Integration interfaces with hypervisors
  • Management of SSH key pairs
  • Defining and managing instance flavours
  • Configuration of instance parameters
  • Procedures for launching new instances
  • Validating successfully spawned instances
  • Creating and managing snapshots
  • General instance lifecycle management
  • Association of Floating IPs with instances
  • Accessing interactive consoles and reviewing console logs
  • Assignment of security groups to instances
  • Administration of compute resource quotas
  • Retrieving statistical data from Nova
  • Understanding the Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
  • Verification of Nova service status
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Configuration of volume parameters
  • Creation of block storage volumes
  • General volume administration
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshotting
  • Administration of volume backup processes
  • Restoration of backup data
  • Enforcement of volume quotas
  • Integration of new storage backends
  • Implementation of LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Role of Ceph within the OpenStack stack
  • Verification of Cinder service operations
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Components and internal processes of Swift
  • Management of containers and stored objects
  • Configuration of access control lists (ACLs)
  • Implementation of object expiration policies
  • Understanding The Ring and storage distribution policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Establishment of storage quotas
  • Verification of Swift service performance
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent parts
  • Deployment of Heat stacks
  • Validation of deployed Heat stacks
  • Updating existing Heat stack configurations
  • Verification of Heat service functionality