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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud computing
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models
- Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying utility tools
- Third-party integrations
- OpenStack lifecycle management
- OpenStack certification pathway
- Introduction to the OpenStack lab (VM) used for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Exploring OpenStack Fundamentals
- Overview of OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- Daemon operations and API communication flows
- Keystone: Identity Management
- Management of domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone service catalogue and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance: Image Service
- Image characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing capabilities
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Validating Glance services
- Neutron: Networking
- Essential Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing mechanisms
- Use of network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South routing implementations
- Managing floating IPs
- Configuring network quotas
- Basic network diagnostics (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Networking quota management
- Validating Neutron services
- Nova: Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Keypair management
- Flavour configuration and management
- Instance parameter definition
- Instance creation processes
- Verifying spawned instances
- Snapshotting capabilities
- General instance administration
- Assignment of floating IPs
- Interactive console and console logs
- Applying security groups
- Compute quota management
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
- Validating Nova services
- Cinder: Block Storage
- Volume parameter configuration
- Creating storage volumes
- General volume management
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Configuring volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Managing volume quotas
- Adding new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Integration of Ceph in OpenStack
- Validating Cinder services
- Swift: Object Storage
- Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists
- Setting up object expiration policies
- The Ring architecture and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring storage quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat: Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stacks
- Updating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat services
- Essential Troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Centralized logging strategies
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Analyzing compute node status
- Diagnosing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services overview
- General methodology for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Resolving network connectivity problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery strategies
3. Advanced Topics
- Hardware Considerations and Capacity Planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network design principles
- Storage design strategies
- Flavour sizing recommendations
- Resource overcommitment concepts
- Highly Available Control Plane
- Implementing HA in OpenStack services
- Highly available database configuration
- Highly available message queue setup
- Cloud Partitioning and Scheduler Filters
- Implementing cloud partitions using host-aggregates
- Configuring Nova scheduler filters
- Workload Migration
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration parameters
- 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 and the Octavia project
- VPNaaS services
- OpenStack Monitoring and Telemetry
- Ceilometer service implementation
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced Cloud and Hypervisor Features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV technology
- Cloud-init and Image Customization
- Metadata Service configuration
- Block Storage Backends
- LVM implementation
- Ceph RBD integration
- Use of physical storage appliances
- Storage network design considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade techniques
- Bare-Metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future trajectory of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Familiarity with cloud computing principles
28 Hours
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