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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key features of cloud services
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Underlying tools
- Integration capabilities
- The OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification paths
- Overview of the course lab environment (VM)
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Exploring OpenStack
- Core components: Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, and Heat
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
- OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Understanding domains, projects, users, and roles
- Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Verifying Keystone service functionality
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes: properties, metadata, formats, and containers
- Uploading and downloading images
- Sharing images across users
- Managing quotas for the image service
- Verifying Glance service operations
- Neutron - Networking
- Basic Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing
- Utilizing network namespaces
- Configuring external/provider networks
- North-South routing
- Managing Floating IPs
- Setting network quotas
- Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Monitoring networking quotas
- Verifying Neutron service status
- Nova - Compute Service
- Hypervisor interface integration
- Managing key pairs
- Configuring instance flavors
- Defining instance parameters
- Provisioning new instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating and managing snapshots
- General instance management
- Assigning Floating IPs to instances
- Accessing interactive consoles and viewing console logs
- Configuring security group assignments
- Setting compute quotas
- Gathering statistics from Nova
- Understanding the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verifying Nova service operations
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Configuring volume parameters
- Creating block volumes
- Managing existing volumes
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring data from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Integrating new storage backends
- Utilizing LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph as backends
- Deploying Ceph within OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder service status
- Swift - Object Storage
- Understanding Swift components and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting up object expiration policies
- The Storage Ring and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring Swift quotas
- Verifying Swift service operations
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template structure and components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Validating Heat stack deployments
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat service status
- Fundamental Troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files for errors
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Maintaining the OpenStack database
- Performing OpenStack backups
- Evaluating compute node status
- Assessing instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Utilizing metadata services
- General approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network connectivity problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
3. Advanced Topics
- Hardware Considerations and Capacity Planning
- Selecting compute hardware
- Designing network architecture
- Designing storage solutions
- Sizing instance flavors
- Managing resource overcommitment
- Highly Available Control Plane
- Achieving high availability in OpenStack services
- Implementing HA for databases
- Implementing HA for message queues
- Cloud Partitioning and Scheduler Filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters configuration
- Workload Migration
- Performing cold and live migrations
- Tweaking live migration parameters
- Leveraging the Watcher project for automation
- Deep Dive into OpenStack Networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types: local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge plugin
- Open vSwitch plugin
- Distributed Virtual Routers (DVR)
- Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) and the Octavia project
- Virtual Private Network as a Service (VPNaaS)
- OpenStack Monitoring and Telemetry
- Ceilometer service functionality
- Integrating external monitoring tools
- Advanced Cloud/Hypervisor Features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV implementation
- Cloud-init and Image Customization
- Configuring metadata services
- Block Storage Backends
- LVM configuration
- Ceph RBD deployment
- Utilizing physical storage appliances
- Storage network design considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedural steps
- Executing zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-Metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Concepts of undercloud and overcloud deployments
- The Future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Foundational networking knowledge
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
28 Hours
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