OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud technology
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Foundational tools
  • Third-party integrations
• OpenStack operational lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Setup of the course-specific OpenStack lab (VM)

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Familiarizing yourself with OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Communication flow between OpenStack daemons and APIs
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Administration of Keystone service catalog and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone services
• Glance - Image service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Procedures for uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing image resources
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Validating Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Fundamental Neutron network resource types
  • Administration of tenant networks and subnets 
  • Configuration of security groups and rules
  • East-West routing mechanisms
  • Use of network namespaces
  • Management of external and provider networks
  • North-South routing procedures
  • Allocation and management of Floating IPs
  • Configuration of network quotas
  • Initial network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Review of networking quotas
  • Validating Neutron services
• Nova - Compute service
  • Interfaces for hypervisors
  • Management of key pairs
  • Administration of flavours
  • Configuration of instance parameters
  • Procedures for creating instances
  • Verification of launched instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance management
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Accessing interactive consoles and reviewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Configuration of compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Utilization of Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Configuration of volume parameters
  • Creation of storage volumes
  • Volume administration
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Management of volume snapshots
  • Administration of volume backups
  • Restoration of backups
  • Configuration of volume quotas
  • Integration of new storage backends
  • Support for LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Implementation of Ceph within OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder services
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Architecture of Swift components and processes
  • Management of containers and objects
  • Configuration of access control lists
  • Setup of object expiration rules
  • Understanding The Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Establishment of storage quotas
  • Validating Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creation of Heat stacks
  • Validation of Heat stacks
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Validation of Heat services