OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The evolution of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud services
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid configurations
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models
• Deploying public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Open source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Underlying supporting tools
  • Third-party integrations
• Understanding the OpenStack lifecycle
• Overview of OpenStack certification
• Setup of the OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop

• Exploring OpenStack fundamentals
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud
  • Understanding daemon interactions and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity management service
  • Managing domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Configuring Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone service functionality
• Glance - Image service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, format, and container)
  • Uploading and retrieving images
  • Sharing images across users
  • Configuring quotas for the image service
  • Verifying Glance service operations
• Neutron - Networking
  • Basic 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
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting using tools like namespaces and tcpdump
  • Defining networking quotas
  • Validating Neutron service operations
• Nova - Compute service
  • Interfaces to hypervisors
  • Managing keypairs
  • Flavour management
  • Configuring instance parameters
  • Launching new instances
  • Verifying spawned 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
  • Understanding the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Validating Nova service operations
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume parameters
  • Creating new 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
  • Using LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder service operations
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists
  • Setting up object expiration policies
  • Understanding the Ring and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage space
  • Configuring storage quotas
  • Validating Swift service operations
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating a Heat stack
  • Validating a Heat stack
  • Updating a Heat stack
  • Verifying Heat service functionality