OpenStack Administration & Operations

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 OpenStackBasic understanding of OpenStack
• Motivations: Learn the critical skills needed to operate and administer an OpenStack environment
• Roles: System/network administrators, Technical IT Professionals, Deployment engineers, Cloud administrators, & Cloud operations

• 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

• Solid Linux command line skills
• OS100 or equivalent experience, including:
  • Familiarity with the OpenStack Dashboard UI & command line client
• Although not required, an understanding of hypervisors, virtualization, networking, and storage concepts is beneficia

• CN120 - Kubernetes Application Essentials

• OS320 - Advanced OpenStack Deployment
• Bundle Up: OS250 - OpenStack Administration Bootcamp

• CN251 - Cloud Native Operations Bootcamp

Lab requirements:

• Laptop with WiFi connectivity
• Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io.

All Mirantis OpenStack courses are vendor agnostic. Tasks are performed in an OpenStack environment without any vendor add-ons that might change the way OpenStack works. Reference implementations are utilized, such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for Block Storage, Open vSwitch (OVS) for L2 networking, or KVM/QEMU for the hypervisor.