Course Outline
- General architecture of OpenStack
- OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course
- Message queue and database configurations
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design principles
- Storage design strategies
- Flavor sizing guidelines
- Resource overcommitment techniques
- Highly Available control plane
- High availability in OpenStack services
- HA database implementation
- HA message queue configuration
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tweaking live migration parameters
- Introduction to 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 and the Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- Troubleshooting
- General approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Diagnosing network problems
- Analyzing log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Understanding metadata services
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and 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 upgrade methods
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Foundational networking knowledge
- Understanding of cloud computing paradigms
- Basic practical and theoretical knowledge of OpenStack
Testimonials (5)
The virtual desktop in a browser feature was kind of neat.
Mikael Karlsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
Damian, is very skilled, I'm very pleased with everything, no complains, best training session I've participated in for a long time… It's very difficult to have a training course like this, totally remote, you did a great job, It went very well, there were no issues.
Peter Erlandsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The flexibility to answer questions. Good pdf, good examples
Conny Vigstrom - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The broad perspective of Openstack, no chance to dive in to deep to be able to keep schedule, more to where to get information from.
Jorgen Selegran - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
To get a better understanding about OpenStack.