Fundamentals of OpenStack Technology

This course teaches administrators and users to configure, manage and use the OpenStack® cloud services platform. An architectural overview ensures understanding of various OpenStack projects and their functions. Hands-on labs provide configuration and operations experience with major aspects of the OpenStack environment. Course content and labs are based on the OpenStack Rocky release.

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Describe the purpose and features of OpenStack
• Describe its high level architecture and list its major components
• Describe methods of access to OpenStack services
• Gain basic hands-on experience

Module 1: OpenStack Technology Overview

• What is a cloud - What is OpenStack
• OpenStack architecture
• OpenStack installation
• Your lab system

Module 2: Accessing OpenStack

• OpenStack API, endpoints and WSGI
• Authentication and tokens
• The OpenStack command line and dashboard

Module 3: Keystone (Identity) •• Keystone concepts

• Keystone API versions
• Keystone command line
• Authentication, authorization and policies

Module 4: Nova (Servers)

•   Nova concepts
  •  How a user sees Nova instances
  • Instances, keypairs, console, IP addresses, security groups,instance-specific data
• Launch instances and make them available on the network
• Customize instance with user data
  • Nova implementation
  • Nova microversions
  • Nova architecture
  • What happens when an instance is launched
  • Nova scheduler and placement service
• Managing compute nodes
  • Overview
  • Cells
  • Aggregates and availability zones
• Nova troubleshooting

Module 5: Glance (Images)

• Glance concepts
  • Where to get images
  • Disk and container formats
  • Uploading images
  • Glance backends
• Controlling image upload
  • Image upload - classic method
  • Image upload - interoperable image import method
  • Image metadata

Module 6: Neutron (Networks)

•  Neutron resource abstractions
  • Networks, subnets, ports, routers
  • Provider networks, external networks, tenant networks
  • Floating IPs and address translation
• Command examples
• Network implementation
  • Network separation and access
  • Routing
  • Plugins and agents
  • The ML2 plugin
  •  The Nova metadata service and Neutron

Module 7: Cinder (Block Storage – LUNs)

• Basic concepts and commands
  • OpenStack storage overview
  • What cloud operators and users want from storage
  • Storage drivers
  • Creating, deleting, attaching, detaching, listing volumes
  • Using volumes as boot disks
  • Multi-attach
• Cinder implementation
• Advanced concepts
  • Backends, volume types and extra specs
  • Snapshots
  • Backups
• HPE storage and Cinder

Module 8: Swift (Object Storage)

•   Swift concepts
  • Why object storage
  • Accounts, containers, objects
  • Replication
• Using Swift
  • Uploading and downloading objects
  • Other commands
  • Access control
  • TempURL
  • Large objects
• Swift architecture

Module 9: Ceilometer (Metering) and Heat (Orchestration)

• Ceilometer and the Telemetry family
  • Telemetry architecture and dataflow
  • Ceilometer sampling and publishing to Gnocchi
  • Alarms
• Heat: orchestrating a cloud application
  • Templates and stacks
  • Heat architecture
  • Example template
  • Heat and autoscaling
  • Launching and viewing a stack

System administrators, engineers and consultants who plan and manage OpenStack-based environments.

• Completion of Linux Fundamentals (U8583S)
• Completion of Linux for Unix Administrators (U2794S)
• Completion of Cloud Computing Overview WBT (HK917AAE)