Course Overview:
The course is dedicated to architects and IT engineers who are looking for a solution to host private or public IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
Course Objectives:
- Gaining basic knowledge regarding OpenStack design, installation and administration
- Automated OpenStack cluster installation and configuration
- Manual OpenStack cluster installation and configuration
Pre-requisites:
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Basic knowledge of Cloud Computing paradigm
Target Audience:
- IT Engineers
- Architects
Course Duration:
- 35 hours – 5 days
Course Content:
Basic Introduction: What is OpenStack?
- Foundations of Cloud Computing
- Virtualization vs clustering
- OpenStack evolution
- OpenStack distributions
- OpenStack releases
- OpenStack deployment solutions
- OpenStack services
- OpenStack competitors
OpenStack Administration:
- 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
Basic Environment:
- Prerequisites
- Nodes and networks
- AMQP Keystone
- Objects API concerns
- Components
- Backends
- Authentication process
Glance:
- Components
- Backends
Nova:
- Components
- Flavors
- Instances launching and termination process
- Schedulers awareness
- Remote access
Neutron:
- 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
Horizon:
- Backends
Cinder:
- Volumes
- Components
- Backends
Swift:
- What is object storage?
- Replication Structure
- Data addressing
- Modified consistent hashing ring
- Data placement
- Metadata placement
- Part power
- Ring internals
- Ring builder
- Components
- Backends
Heat:
- Use cases
- Components
- Templates
- “Hello World” template
Ceilometer:
- Use cases
- Basic concepts
- Components
- Polling agents
- Backends
Adding Compute Node:
- Manual addition of a Compute Node
Intermediate Section
Basic Environment:
- Manual installation and configuration of basic environment
Keystone:
- Manual Keystone
- Installation
- Manual Keystone Configuration & Administration
Glance:
- Manual Glance Installation
- Manual Glance Configuration & Administration
Nova:
- Manual Nova Installation
- Manual Nova Configuration & Administration
Neutron:
- Manual Neutron
- Installation Manual
- Neutron Configuration & Administration
Horizon:
- Manual Horizon Installation
- Manual Horizon Configuration & Administration
Cinder:
- Manual Cinder Installation
- Manual Cinder Configuration & Administration
Swift:
- Manual Swift Installation
- Manual Swift Configuration & Administration
Heat:
- Manual Heat Installation
- Manual Hetat Configuration & Administration
Ceilometer:
- Manual Ceilometer Installation
- Manual Ceilometer Configuration & Administration
