OpenStack Administration

1,995.00 € excl. VAT

Course Code:  0002833100

Duration: 5 days;

Delivery dates: TBA;

Instructor: TBA;

Certificate: Yes, upon completion;

Location: TBA.

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Description

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OpenStack administration course teaches you the concepts of the cloud, cloud delivery models, cloud deployment models, OpenStack Architecture and how to install, configure and maintain a cloud computing environment using OpenStack Platform. Explore many interesting features of OpenStack Platform through hands-on labs. And also look at the future plans of the OpenStack development community. This course is designed for corporates & professionals who are already aware of Cloud technologies and have considerable experience working on Linux environment and are looking to quickly scale up to OpenStack.

 Audience

  • Linux system administrators and cloud administrators interested in, or responsible for, maintaining a private cloud
  • IT Professionals wanting to formally learn about OpenStack and how to create a private, public cloud using OpenStack
  • Organizations planning to implement their own private or public cloud
  • IT professionals looking to enhance the credibility of your resume

Course Materials

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Course Description

  • Defining the key terminology and principles of Cloud Computing for enterprise and industry case study practice.
  • Identifying the OpenStack Project and it’s Components and architecture
  • Explaining what images and instances are and description of the life cycle of a typical virtual system within the cloud and involving Cloud Computing Administrator into configuring and full deployment of OpenStack compute.
  • Explaining detail OpenStack Cloud authorization and authentication mechanism.
  • Providing the concept of hypervisors, different hypervisors types and product names, and how they work and be administered.
  • Explaining to OpenStack Cloud Administrator how to deal with Cloud virtual machines images, include: booting, pausing, suspending, and replication. And how to deal with OpenStack Cloud virtual machines instances.

Prerequisites

This Course requires mid-level knowledge of Linux, or attend one of the following courses:

  • Cloud Technology Fundamentals
  • Open Cloud Technology Fundamentals

Course Outline

Module 1: Cloud Computing Background

  • Why Cloud
  • Delivery Models: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
  • Deployment Models: Public, Private, Hybrid
  • Virtualization Overview
  • Cloud Computing characteristics and layers
  • IT roles in the cloud
  • Risk assessment
  • Cloud migration topics to consider

Module 2: OpenStack components and architecture

  • Definition and brief description of the functions of each OpenStack component
  • Conceptual Architecture with a diagram shows how components are connected and the relation between them.
  • Deploying Horizon.
  • Dashboard customization.
  • Storage concepts

Module 3: OpenStack Compute I

  • Introduction to OpenStack Compute
  • Users and Tenants (Projects)
  • Images and Instances
  • OpenStack Compute and Block Storage

Module 4: OpenStack Compute II

  • Setting Configuration Options in the nova.conf File
  • General Compute Configuration Overview
  • Example nova.conf Configuration Files.
  • Configuring File format for nova.conf and List of configuration options.
  • Configuring Database connection
  • Configuring Compute API
  • Configuring quotas

Module 5: Identity Management.

  • Identity Service Concepts.
  • SSL and Keystone Configuration.
  • Sample configuration file, running, and initialize Keystone.
  • Adding Users, Tenants, and Roles with python-keystone client
  • Configuring Services to work with Keystone.
  • Configuring Keystone SSL support.
  • Using External Authentication with OpenStack Identity.
  • Troubleshooting Identity (Keystone).

Module 6: Image Management

  • Configuring Tenant-specific Storage Locations for Images with Object Storage.
  • Adding images with glance image-create.
  • Booting a test image.
  • Tearing down (deleting) Instances.
  • Pausing and Suspending Instances.
  • Select a specific host to boot instances on.
  • Creating images from running instances with KVM and Xen.
  • Replicating images across multiple data centers.

Module 7: Instance Management

  • Interfaces to managing instances.
  • Instance building blocks.
  • Creating instances.
  • Controlling where instances run.
  • Instance specific data.
  • Configuring instances at boot time.
  • Config drive.
  • Managing instance networking.
  • Manage Volumes.
  • Accessing running instances.
  • Stop and Start an Instance.
  • Change Server Configuration.
  • Instance evacuation.
  • Terminate an Instance.

Module 8: Hypervisors

  • Selecting a Hypervisor
  • Hypervisor Configuration Basics
  • KVM
  • PowerVM
  • Qemu
  • Bare Metal Driver

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