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Duration 28 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud technology and the origins of OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid architectures
- On-premise solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment architectures
- The broader OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools and technologies
- Integration capabilities
- Managing the OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Overview of the course lab (VM) environment
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarizing with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
- Understanding 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 administering domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, and containers)
- Uploading and retrieving images
- Sharing images across projects
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Verifying Glance service health
- Neutron - Networking
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Administering tenant networks and subnets
- Managing security groups and rules
- East-West routing mechanisms
- Understanding network namespaces
- Configuring external and provider networks
- North-South routing configurations
- Managing Floating IPs
- Setting network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Managing networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Managing keypairs
- Managing instance flavours
- Configuring instance parameters
- Provisioning new instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- General instance management tasks
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and reviewing console logs
- Applying security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Exploring the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Defining volume parameters
- Provisioning new volumes
- Managing existing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Handling volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Integrating new storage backends
- Utilizing LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integrating Ceph within OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift internal components and processes
- Administering containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Implementing object expiration policies
- Understanding Rings and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Setting up storage quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent parts
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack status
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Basic troubleshooting techniques
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Performing OpenStack backups
- Analyzing compute node status
- Diagnosing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Managing Metadata services
- General methodologies 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 requirements
- Network design principles
- Storage design strategies
- Flavour sizing best practices
- Managing resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- Implementing High Availability (HA) in OpenStack services
- Configuring an HA database
- Setting up an HA message queue
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and methods for implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Configuring Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration strategies
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration parameters
- Utilizing the Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3h)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugin options
- 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
- Metadata Service configuration
- Block storage backends
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Ceph RBD integration
- Physical storage appliances
- Considerations for storage networks
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and standard procedures
- Achieving zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future direction of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration capabilities
- Essential networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of the cloud computing paradigm
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