OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack

• Evolution of cloud technology and OpenStack
• Key characteristics of cloud environments
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid architectures
  • On-premise infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Implementing public and private clouds using OpenStack
• Comparison of open-source and commercial OpenStack distributions
• Different OpenStack deployment strategies
• The broader OpenStack ecosystem
  • Core modules
  • Foundational supporting tools
  • Third-party integrations
• The OpenStack project lifecycle
• OpenStack certification pathways
• Dedicated OpenStack lab environment (VM) for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack administration workshop 

• Familiarization with OpenStack 
  • Core services (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud interface
  • Understanding daemon behavior and API communication flows
• Keystone - Identity Management Service
  • 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 Service
  • Image attributes (properties, metadata, formats, containers)
  • Uploading and retrieving images
  • Sharing image resources
  • Configuring image service quotas
  • Verifying Glance service operations
• Neutron - Networking
  • Foundational Neutron network resource types
  • Administering tenant networks and subnets, 
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West traffic routing
  • Utilizing network namespaces
  • Managing external and provider networks
  • North-South traffic routing
  • Managing Floating IPs
  • Setting network quotas
  • Basic network diagnostics (using namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Reviewing network quota settings
  • Validating Neutron service performance
• Nova - Compute Service
  • Interfaces to hypervisor platforms
  • Managing keypairs
  • Configuring instance flavours
  • Defining instance parameters
  • Provisioning new instances
  • Verifying launched instances
  • Creating snapshots
  • General instance administration
  • Assigning Floating IPs
  • Accessing interactive consoles and logs
  • Applying security groups
  • Setting compute quotas
  • Retrieving statistical data from Nova
  • Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
  • Verifying Nova service integrity
• Cinder - Block Storage
  • Volume configuration parameters
  • Creating new volumes
  • Administering existing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots
  • Handling volume backups
  • Restoring from backups
  • Setting volume quotas
  • Integrating new storage backends
  • Supporting LVM, storage arrays, and Ceph backends
  • Integrating Ceph within OpenStack
  • Validating Cinder service operations
• Swift - Object Storage
  • Swift architecture and core processes
  • Managing containers and stored objects
  • Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
  • Implementing object expiration policies
  • Working with Rings and storage policies
  • Monitoring available storage capacity
  • Defining storage quotas
  • Verifying Swift service functionality
• Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat Orchestration Templates and their constituent parts
  • Provisioning Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat stack status
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Validating Heat service operations