OpenStack Administration and Operations

Duration: 4 days

Course Overview:

The OpenStack Administration and Operations course is a 4 day class designed to provide you with a complete experience with administering and operating the most common OpenStack components to implement Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a private cloud; from image management to instance creation to network plugins and more.

Target Audience:

This course is targeted at students with the following:

Skills:

• Basic understanding of cloud and virtualization technologies

• Basic hypervisor skills are beneficial, such as KVM or VMware, but not required

• Basic Linux skills

• Basic understanding of OpenStack

• Motivations: Learn the critical skills needed to operate and administer an OpenStack environment

Course Objectives:

• Keystone (Identity service): Authenticating with Keystone, managing tokens, RBAC policies, & the purpose of the Service Catalog

• Glance (Image service): Creating & managing images, options to build an image, the purpose of cloud-init

• Neutron (Network service): Understand what networks OpenStack uses, such as, the management network. Neutron architecture, including plugins, namespaces, layer 2 protocols, layer 3 routing, Neutron security groups, and more.

• Nova (Compute service): Using Nova to deploy virtual machine (VM) instances & control where the instances are deployed. Deploying instances with SSH keys for better security. Understanding the supported hypervisors. Lastly, implementing resource quotas.

• Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.

• Octavia (LBaaS): Use the CLI to create & manage a load balancer and load balancer resources

• Ceilometer / Aodh (Telemetry services): Discuss the role & architecture of each component. Review a sample application with load balancing and autoscaling

Course Prerequisites:

• Solid Linux command line skills

• Familiarity with the OpenStack Dashboard UI & command line client

• Although not required, an understanding of hypervisors, virtualization, networking, and storage concepts is beneficial

Lab requirements:

• Laptop with WiFi connectivity

• Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at www.strigo.io (and/or) https://openmetal.io/