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1. Introduction to OpenStack

  • Evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
  • Key characteristics of cloud services
  • Cloud deployment models
    • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
    • On-premise solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  • OpenStack-based public and private cloud deployments
  • Comparing open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
  • OpenStack deployment architectures
  • The OpenStack ecosystem
    • Core modules
    • Supporting tools
    • System integrations
  • OpenStack lifecycle management
  • OpenStack certification pathways
  • Overview of the course lab environment (VM)

2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop

  • Exploring OpenStack
    • Key OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
    • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
    • Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication workflows
  • Keystone – Identity Management
    • Understanding domains, projects, users, and roles
    • Managing Keystone service catalog entries and endpoints
    • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
    • Verifying Keystone service health
  • Glance – Image Service
    • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, container types)
    • Uploading and downloading images
    • Sharing images across the organization
    • Configuring quotas for the image service
    • Verifying Glance service functionality
  • Neutron – Networking
    • Neutron network resource types
    • Configuring tenant networks and subnets
    • Managing security groups and access rules
    • East-West routing configurations
    • Utilizing network namespaces
    • Configuring external and provider networks
    • North-South routing implementations
    • Floating IP management
    • Setting network quotas
    • Basic network troubleshooting (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
    • Monitoring networking quotas
    • Verifying Neutron service status
  • Nova – Compute Service
    • Interfaces connecting to hypervisors
    • Key pair management
    • Flavor configuration
    • Configuring instance parameters
    • Launching new instances
    • Validating running instances
    • Creating and managing snapshots
    • Instance lifecycle management
    • Associating floating IPs
    • Accessing interactive consoles and viewing logs
    • Assigning security groups
    • Configuring compute quotas
    • Gathering statistics from Nova
    • Understanding the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
    • Verifying Nova service status
  • Cinder – Block Storage
    • Volume configuration parameters
    • Creating 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
    • Configuring LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
    • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
    • Verifying Cinder service status
  • Swift – Object Storage
    • Swift architecture and underlying 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 storage quotas
    • Verifying Swift service status
  • Heat – Orchestration
    • Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT) and their components
    • Creating Heat stacks
    • Validating Heat stack deployment
    • Updating Heat stacks
    • Verifying Heat service status

Requirements

  • Foundational skills in Linux system administration
  • Basic understanding of computer networking
  • Familiarity with core cloud computing concepts
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