Red Hat OpenStack Administration II with exam v8 (CL211)

The focus of this course is managing Red Hat OpenStack Platform using the unified command-line interface, managing instances, and maintaining an enterprise deployment of OpenStack. This course also teaches the management and customization of an enterprise deployment of OpenStack (overcloud) and how to manage compute nodes with Red Hat OpenStack Platform director (undercloud).

Exam competencies covered in the course include:

Expanding compute nodes on Red Hat OpenStack Platform using the undercloud.

Managing images, networking, and block storage.

Providing orchestration and auto-scaling (scale-out and scale-back).

Building a customized image.

Course content summary:

Build and customize an image

Write a Heat template

Diagnose and troubleshoot OpenStack issues holistically

Manage Ceph storage in an OpenStack environment

Scale compute nodes

Migrate instances

Scale stacks automatically

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent knowledge and experience

• Linux system administrators
• Cloud administrators
• Cloud operators

Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack exam (EX210, EX210K)

Demonstrate your ability to build and manage private clouds using Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Red Hat OpenStack Administration III: Networking & Foundations of NFV (CL310)

Learn to deploy, manage, and configure Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Red Hat OpenStack Administration III: Networking & Foundations of NFV with exam (CL311)

Learn to deploy, manage, and configure Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenStack Platform and demonstrate your skills and knowledge to become a Red Hat Certified Engineer in Red Hat OpenStack.

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to troubleshoot and manage the life cycle of a private cloud. Control of the life cycle is important for organizations seeking to manage costs according to their own schedule, and having advanced administrators reduces downtime.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to manage the lifecycle of Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Understand the concepts of undercloud, overcloud, and Heat templates.
• Manage internal Red Hat OpenStack Platform communication.
• Build custom disk images.
• Manage Ceph and Swift.
• Troubleshoot an SDN infrastructure.
• Manage resilient compute resources.
• Troubleshoot general Red Hat OpenStack Platform issues.
• Monitor cloud metrics.
• Deploy Heat stacks.