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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
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