OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The history of cloud technology and OpenStack
• Key features of cloud computing
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment models
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Introduction to the virtual machine (VM) lab used in this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop

• Exploring OpenStack fundamentals
  • Key OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, and Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • Management of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Configuring Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone services
• Glance - Image Service
  • Image characteristics (properties, metadata, formats, and containers)
  • Uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing images across the environment
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Validating Glance services
• Neutron - Networking
  • Core Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing concepts
  • Working with network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South routing mechanisms
  • Managing floating IPs
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (including namespaces and tcpdump)
  • Reviewing networking quotas
  • Validating Neutron services
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • Key pair management
  • Flavour management
  • Instance parameter configuration
  • Provisioning new instances
  • Verifying deployed instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance management tasks
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and viewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Configuring compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Overview of the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova services
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume parameter configuration
  • Creating volumes
  • Managing existing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Handling volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Configuring volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • Integration with LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph
  • Ceph integration within OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder services
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and associated processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • Understanding the Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Configuring quotas
  • Validating Swift services
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Structure of Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating a Heat stack
  • Verifying the deployed Heat stack
  • Updating an existing Heat stack
  • Validating Heat services