OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• The history of cloud computing and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud infrastructure
• Cloud delivery models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Open-source versus commercial OpenStack distributions
• Various OpenStack deployment strategies
• The broader OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Foundational tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The lifecycle of OpenStack
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Accessing the dedicated OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. Practical OpenStack Administration Workshop 

• Exploring OpenStack 
  • Core components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
  • Understanding daemons and API communication flows
• Keystone: Identity Management Service
  • Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Administering Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Validating Keystone services
• Glance: Image Service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Uploading and retrieving images
  • Sharing images across projects
  • Configuring image service quotas
  • Verifying Glance services
• Neutron: Networking
  • Core Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing mechanisms
  • Utilizing network namespaces
  • Administering external and provider networks
  • North-South routing configurations
  • Managing floating IPs
  • Configuring network quotas
  • Basic network troubleshooting using tools like namespaces and tcpdump
  • Reviewing networking quotas
  • Validating Neutron services
• Nova: Compute Service
  • Interfacing with hypervisors
  • Managing key pairs
  • Managing instance flavours
  • Configuring instance parameters
  • Launching new instances
  • Verifying created instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance management
  • Assigning floating IPs
  • Using the interactive console and reviewing console logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Configuring compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Utilizing the Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  • Verifying Nova services
• Cinder: Block Storage
  • Configuring 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
  • Integrating new storage backends
  • Working with LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph storage backends
  • Integrating Ceph with OpenStack
  • Verifying Cinder services
• Swift: Object Storage
  • Understanding Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects
  • Configuring access control lists
  • Setting up object expiration policies
  • The Ring concept and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Configuring storage quotas
  • Verifying Swift services
• Heat: Orchestration
  • Structuring Heat Orchestration Templates and their components
  • Creating Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat stacks
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat services