OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of the cloud
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid configurations
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS tiers
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment architectures
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Foundational tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack service lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Dedicated OpenStack lab environment (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Exploring the OpenStack platform 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Methods for interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Daemons and API communication workflows
• Keystone - Identity management
  • Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Configuring Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  • Creating and administering domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Uploading and retrieving images
  • Image sharing mechanisms
  • Configuring image service quotas
  • Validating Glance service functionality
• Neutron - Networking
  • Essential Neutron network resource types
  • Administration of tenant networks and subnets 
  • Configuration of security groups and rules
  • East-West traffic routing
  • Use of network namespaces
  • Management of external and provider networks
  • North-South traffic routing
  • Handling Floating IPs
  • Configuration of network quotas
  • Basic network diagnostics (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Review of networking quotas
  • Validating Neutron service functionality
• Nova - Compute service
  • Hypervisor interfaces
  • SSH keypair management
  • Flavor configuration
  • Instance parameter settings
  • Provisioning instances
  • Verification of created instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • Ongoing instance management
  • Assignment of Floating IPs
  • Accessing interactive console and console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Management of compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova service functionality
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume configuration parameters
  • Provisioning volumes
  • Volume management tasks
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Managing volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Configuring volume quotas
  • Adding new storage backends
  • LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Integration of Ceph within OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder service functionality
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift architecture and processes
  • Administration of containers and objects
  • Configuration of access control lists
  • Setting object expiration policies
  • The Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Setting up storage quotas
  • Validating Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent parts
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Verification of stack status
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat service functionality