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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud computing and the origin of OpenStack
- Defining features of cloud infrastructure
- Various cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid architectures
- On-premise solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
- Different OpenStack deployment strategies
- The broader OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Foundational tools
- Third-party integrations
- The operational lifecycle of OpenStack
- Overview of OpenStack certifications
- Introduction to the virtual machine (VM) lab environment for this course
2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing with the OpenStack interface
- Key components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud platform
- Understanding daemons and API communication workflows
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
- Administering Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating the status of Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and retrieving images
- Image sharing capabilities
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Verifying Glance service operations
- Neutron - Networking
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Administering tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West routing mechanisms
- Utilizing network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South routing processes
- Managing Floating IPs
- Setting network quotas
- Basic network diagnostics (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota management
- Validation of Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces connecting to hypervisors
- Key pair administration
- Flavor configuration and management
- Instance parameter settings
- Provisioning new instances
- Verification of created instances
- Snapshot capabilities
- Instance administration tasks
- Assigning Floating IPs
- Accessing the interactive console and reviewing logs
- Applying security groups
- Compute quota settings
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Validation of Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume configuration parameters
- Creating storage volumes
- Volume administration
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Handling volume snapshots
- Managing volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Integrating new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
- Ceph integration within OpenStack
- Verification of Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and internal processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Setting object expiration policies
- The Ring structure and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Establishing quotas
- Validation of Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent parts
- Building Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack integrity
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Validation of Heat services
- Fundamental Troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- OpenStack database management
- Backup procedures for OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node health
- Assessing instance status
- Examining the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata service operations
- General diagnostic approaches for OpenStack issues
- Diagnosing network connectivity problems
- Addressing network performance issues
- Instance backup and recovery strategies
3. Advanced Topics
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware requirements
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Flavor sizing optimization
- Resource overcommitment strategies
- Highly Available Control Plane
- Implementing HA across OpenStack services
- High availability for databases
- High availability for message queues
- Cloud Partitioning and Scheduler Filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filter configuration
- Workload Migration
- Cold versus live migration
- Optimizing live migration
- 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
- OpenStack Monitoring and Telemetry
- Utilizing the Ceilometer service
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced Cloud and Hypervisor Features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV implementation
- Cloud-init and Image Customization
- Metadata Service integration
- Block Storage Backends
- LVM configuration
- Ceph RBD integration
- Physical storage appliances
- Storage network design considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Achieving zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future trajectory of OpenStack
Requirements
- Fundamental Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Foundational knowledge of the cloud computing paradigm
28 Hours
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