OpenStack Administration Training Course

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 solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Open-source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• The dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Exploring OpenStack fundamentals 
  • Key OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • Domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Managing the Keystone service catalogue and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Verifying Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image Service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
  • Uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing images across users
  • Managing image service quotas
  • Verifying Glance service functionality
• Neutron - Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing
  • Network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South routing
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Controlling network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Networking quotas
  • Verifying Neutron service functionality
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Keypair management
  • Flavour management
  • Instance parameters
  • Provisioning new instances
  • Verifying spawned instances
  • Snapshotting instances
  • General instance management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and console log
  • Applying security groups
  • Compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova service functionality
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume parameters
  • Creating volumes
  • Managing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Managing volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder service functionality
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • The Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Setting storage quotas
  • Verifying Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stack status
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat service functionality