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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack
- The evolution of cloud computing and the history of OpenStack
- Key characteristics of cloud infrastructure
- Cloud deployment models
- Private, public, and hybrid clouds
- On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Implementing public and private cloud solutions using OpenStack
- Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- Various OpenStack deployment architectures
- The broader OpenStack ecosystem
- Core modules
- Supporting tools and technologies
- Third-party integrations
- The OpenStack service lifecycle
- OpenStack certification pathways
- Setup of the dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for this course
2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Exploring the OpenStack environment
- Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
- Understanding daemon operations and API communication flows
- Keystone: Identity management services
- Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
- Configuring Keystone catalog services and endpoints
- Creating and administering domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
- Validating Keystone service functionality
- Glance: Image services
- Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
- Uploading and downloading images
- Image sharing mechanisms
- Configuring image service quotas
- Verifying Glance service operations
- Neutron: Network management
- Fundamental Neutron network resource types
- Managing tenant networks and subnets
- Configuring security groups and rules
- East-West traffic routing
- Utilizing network namespaces
- Managing external or provider networks
- North-South traffic routing
- Managing floating IPs
- Setting network quotas
- Basic network diagnostics (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
- Network quota administration
- Validating Neutron service performance
- Nova: Compute services
- Hypervisor interfaces
- Key pair management
- Flavor configuration
- Instance parameter tuning
- Provisioning new instances
- Verifying spawned instances
- Creating snapshots
- Instance lifecycle management
- Assigning floating IPs
- Using interactive consoles and reviewing console logs
- Applying security groups
- Configuring compute quotas
- Retrieving statistics from Nova
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
- Validating Nova service status
- Cinder: Block storage services
- Volume configuration parameters
- Creating new volumes
- Volume administration
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances
- Managing volume snapshots
- Configuring volume backups
- Restoring from backups
- Setting volume quotas
- Integrating new storage backends
- LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
- Ceph integration within OpenStack
- Validating Cinder service operations
- Swift: Object storage services
- Swift components and processing pipelines
- Managing containers and objects
- Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
- Implementing object expiration policies
- The Ring structure and storage policies
- Monitoring available storage capacity
- Configuring storage quotas
- Validating Swift service health
- Heat: Orchestration services
- Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent parts
- Creating Heat stacks
- Verifying Heat stack deployment
- Updating existing Heat stacks
- Validating Heat service functionality
- Essential troubleshooting techniques
- Analyzing system log files
- Implementing centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client requests
- Managing the OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack data
- Monitoring compute node status
- Checking instance health
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services operations
- General methodologies for diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Resolving network connectivity problems
- Optimizing network performance
- Instance backup and recovery procedures
2. Advanced Topics
- Hardware requirements and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network architecture design
- Storage architecture design
- Determining appropriate flavor sizes
- Managing resource overcommitment
- Highly Available (HA) control plane
- Implementing HA in OpenStack services
- Configuring HA databases
- Setting up HA message queues
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and methods for implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Configuring Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration strategies
- Cold and live migration techniques
- Tuning live migration performance
- Utilizing the Watcher project
- Advanced OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers (DVR)
- LBaaS + Octavia project integration
- VPNaaS services
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- The Ceilometer service
- Integrating external monitoring tools
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor capabilities
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Cloud-init and image customization
- The Metadata Service
- Block storage backend options
- LVM (Logical Volume Manager)
- Ceph RBD
- Physical storage appliances
- Considerations for storage networking
- OpenStack upgrade processes
- Upgrade strategies and step-by-step procedures
- Achieving zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future trajectory of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration experience
- Basic understanding of networking principles
- Familiarity with the cloud computing paradigm
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