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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud technology and the history of OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Public and private cloud implementations using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack project lifecycle
- Information on OpenStack certification
- Overview of the OpenStack lab (VM) used for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Familiarization with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud environment
- Understanding daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Management of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Configuring Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, container)
- Processes for uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across projects
- Configuring image service quotas
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing concepts
- Network namespaces
- Managing external/provider networks
- North-South routing concepts
- Administration of Floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting techniques (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Review of networking quotas
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces for hypervisors
- Management of keypairs
- Administration of flavours
- Configuration of instance parameters
- Provisioning a new instance
- Verification of spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- Ongoing instance management
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Accessing interactive consoles and viewing console logs
- Applying security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Overview of Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Configuration of volume parameters
- Provisioning volumes
- Managing existing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integration of Ceph with OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Components and processes within Swift
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Setting up object expiration policies
- Understanding The Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Components of the Heat Orchestration Template
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack deployment
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Fundamental troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Administering the OpenStack database
- Performing OpenStack backups
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Understanding Metadata services
- General diagnostic approaches for OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network connectivity issues
- Troubleshooting network performance bottlenecks
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Flavour sizing strategies
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- Implementing HA in OpenStack services
- Highly available database configurations
- Highly available message queue configurations
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Configuring Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Optimizing live migration
- Overview of 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 + Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- The Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning / NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- 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
- Foundational understanding of networking concepts
- Basic familiarity with the cloud computing model
28 Hours
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