OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key features of the cloud
• Cloud models
  • Private, public, and hybrid
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• OpenStack-based public and private cloud deployments
• Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• OpenStack deployment models
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification
• The OpenStack lab (VM) provided for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop

• Familiarising yourself with OpenStack
  • OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • OpenStack daemons and API communication flow
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  • Managing and creating domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Verifying Keystone services
• Glance - Image service
  • Image features (properties, metadata, format, container)
  • Uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing images
  • Managing image service quotas
  • Verifying Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Basic Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Managing security groups and rules
  • East-West routing
  • Network namespaces
  • Managing external/provider networks
  • North-South routing
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Managing network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Networking quotas
  • Verifying Neutron services
• Nova - Compute service
  • Interfaces to hypervisors
  • Key pair management
  • Flavour management
  • Instance parameters
  • Creating an instance
  • Verifying spawned instances
  • Snapshotting
  • Instance management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Interactive console and console log
  • Assigning security groups
  • Compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume parameters
  • Creating volumes
  • Managing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring backups
  • Managing volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends
  • Ceph in OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder services
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Managing access control lists
  • Setting up object expiration
  • The Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage space
  • Setting up quotas
  • Verifying Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stacks
  • Updating Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat services