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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud platforms
- Cloud service models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Different OpenStack deployment architectures
- The OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Supporting tools and infrastructure
- Integration options
- OpenStack project lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Course-specific OpenStack lab environment (VM)
2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop
- Familiarizing with OpenStack
- Core OpenStack services (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud platform
- Communication flow between OpenStack daemons and APIs
- Keystone - Identity Management
- Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
- Configuring Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone services
- Glance - Image Service
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and retrieving images
- Sharing images across projects
- Configuring quotas for the image service
- Verifying Glance service functionality
- Neutron - Networking
- Essential Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West traffic routing
- Understanding network namespaces
- Managing external and provider networks
- North-South traffic routing
- Floating IP management
- Setting network quotas
- Initial network diagnostics (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota administration
- Validation of Neutron services
- Nova - Compute Service
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavor administration
- Instance parameter configuration
- Provisioning new instances
- Verifying newly created instances
- Creating snapshots
- General instance management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Using the interactive console and reviewing logs
- Applying security groups
- Manage compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2
- Verification of Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameter settings
- Volume creation
- Volume administration
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Handling volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Configuring volume quotas
- Integrating new storage backends
- Using LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph as backends
- Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
- Verifying Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift architecture and processes
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Configuring object expiration
- The Ring mechanism and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Setting up storage quotas
- Validating Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack status
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Validation of Heat services
- Essential Troubleshooting
- Log file analysis
- Setting up centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client requests
- Managing the OpenStack database
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Analyzing compute node health
- Investigating instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- General methodology for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Resolving network connectivity issues
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery strategies
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware requirements and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Determining appropriate flavor sizes
- Resource overcommitment strategies
- Highly Available Control Plane
- Implementing HA in 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 vs. live migration
- Optimizing live migration
- Overview of the Watcher project
- Deep Dive into OpenStack Networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers (DVR)
- Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) + Octavia project
- VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)
- OpenStack Monitoring and Telemetry
- Ceilometer service details
- External monitoring solutions
- Advanced Cloud/Hypervisor Features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Cloud-init and Image Customization
- Metadata Service configuration
- Block Storage Backends
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Ceph RBD
- Physical storage appliances
- Storage network design considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and step-by-step procedures
- Achieving zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-Metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module overview
- Undercloud and Overcloud concepts
- The Future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration capabilities
- Essential networking knowledge
- Basic understanding of cloud computing principles
28 Hours
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