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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud technology and the OpenStack project
- Defining characteristics of cloud infrastructure
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid architectures
- 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 strategies
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Setup of the OpenStack lab environment (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack services (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud platform
- Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone: Identity Management Service
- Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing the Keystone service catalogue and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone service functionality
- Glance: Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading virtual machine images
- Mechanisms for sharing images
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Validating Glance service functionality
- Neutron: Networking Service
- Essential Neutron network resource types
- Administration of tenant networks and subnets
- Configuration of security groups and rules
- East-West traffic routing
- Utilization of network namespaces
- Management of external and provider networks
- North-South traffic routing
- Handling Floating IP addresses
- Configuring network quotas
- Initial network troubleshooting techniques (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota management
- Validating Neutron service functionality
- Nova: Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavor configuration
- Instance parameter settings
- Provisioning a new instance
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- General instance management
- Assigning Floating IP addresses
- Accessing the interactive console and viewing logs
- Applying security groups
- Compute quota settings
- Retrieving statistical data from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validating Nova service functionality
- Cinder: Block Storage Service
- Volume parameter configuration
- Creating storage volumes
- General volume administration
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Handling volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration within OpenStack
- Validating Cinder service functionality
- Swift: Object Storage Service
- Swift components and internal processes
- Management of containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Setting object expiration rules
- The Ring mechanism and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring storage quotas
- Validating Swift service functionality
- Heat: Orchestration Service
- Heat Orchestration Template structure and components
- Creating a Heat stack
- Verifying the deployed Heat stack
- Updating an existing Heat stack
- Validating Heat service functionality
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration expertise
- Essential networking concepts
- Foundational understanding of cloud computing paradigms
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