OpenStack Administration Training - 2-Day Hands-On Course

Course description and goal

The aim of this course is to get familiar with the OpenStack environment both from the operator and administrator side. After a brief introduction to cloud computing you will get your own OpenStack instance and perform hands-on operational and administrative actions. The course covers all the basic components of the OpenStack from general architecture to administering the cloud. The format of the course comprises around 75% of hands-on workshop in the real OpenStack environment.

Level

Beginner

Duration

14 hours (2 days)

Prerequisites

Basic Linux administration skills
Basic networking knowledge
Basic knowledge of cloud computing paradigm

Training plan

Introduction to OpenStack
- History of the cloud and OpenStack
- Cloud features
- Cloud models
  - private, public, hybrid
  - on-premise, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Public and private cloud deployments based on OpenStack
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack deployment models
- OpenStack ecosystem
  - Projects
  - Underlying tools
  - Integrations
- OpenStack lifecycle
- OpenStack certification
- OpenStack lab (VM) for this course
Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop
- Getting to know OpenStack
  - OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  - Interaction with OpenStack cloud
  - OpenStack daemons and API communication flow
- Keystone - Identity management service
  - Domains, projects, users and roles
  - Managing Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  - Manage/Create domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  - Verification of Keystone services
- Glance - Image service
  - Image features (properties, metadata, format, container)
  - Uploading and downloading image
  - Sharing images
  - Manage quotas for image service
  - Verification of Glance services
- Neutron - Networking
  - Basic Neutron network resource types
  - Manage tenant networks, subnets,
  - Manage security groups and rules
  - East-West routing
  - Network namespaces
  - Manage external/provider networks
  - North-South routing
  - Floating IPs management
  - Manage network quotas
  - Basic network troubleshooting (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  - Networking quotas
  - Verification of Neutron services
- Nova - Compute service
  - Interfaces to hypervisors
  - Keypair management
  - Flavour management
  - Instance parameters
  - Creating an instance
  - Verification of spawned instances
  - Snapshotting
  - Instance management
  - Assigning floating IPs
  - Interactive console and console log
  - Security groups assignment
  - Compute quotas
  - Getting statistics from Nova
  - Placement API and Nova Cells v2
  - Verification of Nova services
- Cinder - Block Storage
  - Volume parameters
  - Creating volume
  - Manage volume
  - Attaching volume to Nova instance
  - Managing volume snapshots
  - Managing volume backups
  - Restoring backups
  - Managing volume quotas
  - Adding new storage backend
  - LVM, storage array and Ceph storage backends
  - Ceph in OpenStack
  - Verification of Cinder services
- Swift - Object Storage
  - Swift components and processes
  - Managing containers and objects
  - Managing access control lists
  - Setting up object expiration
  - The Ring and storage policies
  - Monitoring available storage space
  - Setting up quotas
  - Verification of Swift services
- Heat - Orchestration
  - Heat Orchestration Template and its components
  - Creating Heat stack
  - Verification of Heat stack
  - Updating Heat stack
  - Verification of Heat services