OpenStack Administration

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

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.

1. 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
  • Modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Integrations
• OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification
• OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

2. 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