OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud services
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS architectures
• Public and private cloud implementations utilizing OpenStack
• Comparison between open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Different OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying infrastructure tools
  • Integration points
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Course-specific OpenStack lab environment (VM) setup

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Acquainting yourself with OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Mechanisms for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Daemon operations and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Understanding domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Managing the Keystone catalogue, services, and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Processes for uploading and downloading images
  • Mechanisms for image sharing
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Validating Glance service functionality
• Neutron - Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • Implementing East-West routing
  • Utilizing network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • Implementing North-South routing
  • Handling Floating IP management
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (e.g., namespaces, tcpdump)
  • Reviewing networking quota settings
  • Validating Neutron service functionality
• Nova - Compute service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Key pair management
  • Flavour management
  • Instance parameter configuration
  • Instance creation procedures
  • Verifying newly spawned instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance management
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and reviewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Configuring compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Using the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova service functionality
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume parameters
  • Volume creation
  • General volume management
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Configuring volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • Integration with LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Implementing Ceph within OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder service functionality
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and internal processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • Understanding the Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Configuring quotas
  • Validating Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent parts
  • Creating a Heat stack
  • Validating the deployed Heat stack
  • Updating an existing Heat stack
  • Validating Heat service functionality