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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud infrastructure
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models
- Implementing 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 lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Overview of the OpenStack lab environment (VM) used in this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarizing with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
- Configuring Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying Keystone service functionality
- Glance - Image Service
- Image characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, and containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing image resources
- Managing image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Understanding basic Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing configurations
- Network namespaces
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South routing configurations
- Floating IP management
- Setting network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (using tools like namespaces and tcpdump)
- Configuring networking quotas
- Verifying Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors
- Keypair management
- Flavour management
- Configuring instance parameters
- Creating compute instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshot creation and management
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and viewing console logs
- Applying security groups
- Managing compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Configuring volume parameters
- Creating block storage volumes
- Managing existing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Setting volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and internal processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting up object expiration policies
- Understanding the Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring storage quotas
- Verifying Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Understanding Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack deployments
- Updating existing 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 data
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Managing metadata services
- General strategies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network connectivity problems
- Troubleshooting network performance issues
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Flavour sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment concepts
- Highly Available Control Plane
- Implementing HA in OpenStack services
- HA database configurations
- HA message queue setups
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Strategies for implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Configuring Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tweaking live migration performance
- Utilizing 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 and the Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Using the Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical storage appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade methods
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Basic networking concepts and knowledge
- Foundational understanding of the cloud computing paradigm
28 Hours
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