OpenStack Administration - Basic + Intermediate (Certified System Administrator for OpenStack) Training Course

Introduction:

• What is OpenStack?
• Foundations of Cloud Computing
• Virtualization vs clustering
• OpenStack evolution
• OpenStack distributions
• OpenStack releases
• OpenStack deployment solutions
• OpenStack services
• OpenStack competitors
• EX210 exam

• Basic terms
• IaaS model
• Supported hypervisors
• Supported image formats
• Basic architecture
• Design concerns
• Installation concerns
• Configuration concerns
• Administration concerns
• Automation concerns
• Growth planning
• High Availability concerns
• Automated OpenStack installation with PackStack
• How to download and execute RC files
• How to create an external network in Neutron
• How to upload an image to Glance
• How to create a new flavor in Nova
• How to update default Nova and Neutron quotas
• How to create a new tenant in Keystone
• How to create a new user in Keystone
• How to manage roles in Keystone
• How to create a tenant network in Neutron
• How to create a router in Neutron
• How to manage router’s interfaces in Neutron
• How to update security groups in Neutron
• How to upload RSA key-pair to the project
• How to allocate floating IPs to the project
• How to launch an instance from image in Nova
• How to associate floating IPs with instances
• How to create a new volume in Cinder
• How to attach the volume to the instance
• How to take a snapshot of the instance
• How to take a snapshot of the volume
• How to launch an instance from snapshot in Nova
• How to create a volume from snapshot in Cinder
• How to create a container in Swift
• How to upload data to the container in Swift

• Prerequisites
• Nodes and networks
• AMQP
• Manual installation and configuration of basic environment

• Objects
• API concerns
• Components
• Backends
• Authentication process
• Manual Keystone Installation
• Manual Keystone Configuration & Administration

• Components
• Backends
• Manual Glance Installation
• Manual Glance Configuration & Administration

• Components
• Flavors
• Instances launching and termination process
• Schedulers awareness
• Remote access
• Manual Nova Installation
• Manual Nova Configuration & Administration

• Components
• Network virtualization
• Virtual network devices
• L2 agent
• OVS
• ML2
• Bringing it all together - Compute
• Bringing it all together - Networker
• Virtual networks
• L3 agent
• DHCP agent
• Manual Neutron Installation
• Manual Neutron Configuration & Administration

• Backends
• Manual Horizon Installation
• Manual Horizon Configuration & Administration

• Volumes
• Components
• Backends
• Manual Cinder Installation
• Manual Cinder Configuration & Administration

• What is object storage?
• Replication
• Structure
• Data addressing
• Modified consistent hashing ring
• Data placement
• Metadata placement
• Part power
• Ring internals
• Ring builder
• Components
• Backends
• Manual Swift Installation
• Manual Swift Configuration & Administration

• Use cases
• Components
• Templates
• “Hello World” template
• Manual Heat Installation
• Manual Hetat Configuration & Administration

• Use cases
• Basic concepts
• Components
• Polling agents
• Backends
• Manual Ceilometer Installation
• Manual Ceilometer Configuration & Administration

• Manual addition of a Compute Node