Openstack Private Cloud Administration

1. Overview
2. Core Projects
3. Core Project – Nova
4. Core Project – Neutron
5. Core Project – Glance, Cinder
6. Core Project – Ceilometer
7. Core Project – Heat
8. Core Project – Swift
9. OpenStack Architecture
10. Virtual Machine Provisioning Walk Through

LAB EXERCISES

1. Understanding the classroom environment
2. Perform initial health check
3. Test instance creation

1. Overview Horizon and OpenStack
2. Keystone Architecture
3. Keystone workflow (simplified)
4. Keystone Services
5. Keystone backends
6. Keystone v3 – domains/groups
7. Keystone – User/tenant maintenance
8. Keystone – service catalog
9. Service APIs + keystone
10. Troubleshooting Keystone – Cases
11. Openstack messaging – AMQP
12. OpenStack Messaging and Queues
13. Messaging example with Oslo-RPC
14. Message Queue Configuration
15. Troubleshooting RabbitMQ – Service
16. Message Queue Configuration
17. Image Management
18. Glance overview
19. Glance CLI overview
20. Troubleshooting Glance – Cases

LAB EXERCISES

1. Keystone
2. Glance

1. Block Storage
2. Volume creation flow
3. Volume operations
4. Cinder CLI – create
5. Cinder CLI – extend
6. Cinder CLI – snapshot
7. Cinder CLI – backup/restore
8. Cinder – encrypted volumes
9. Encrypted volumes – CLI
10. Cinder quotas
11. Troubleshooting Cinder – Cases
12. Considerations for block storage

LAB EXERCISES

1. Create volume
2. Attach volume to an instance
3. Extend a volume
4. Using snapshot
5. GlusterFS as backend for Cinder (optional)

1. Linux virtualization basics
2. Hypervisors, KVM, Linux bridges
3. VM Placement
4. VM provisioning in-depth
5. Instance management
6. Nova CLI overview
7. Boot/Terminate Instance
8. Attach volume to instance

LAB EXERCISES

1. Setup
2. VM placement
3. Instance post configuration
4. Image customization
5. Migration (optional)

1. Networking in OpenStack
2. OpenStack Networking Concepts
3. Nova-network vs. Neutron
4. Neutron architecture and plugins
5. OpenVSwitch concepts
6. Neutron agents
7. Network management
8. Neutron CLI overview
9. Manage networks
10. Manage subnets
11. Manager routers
12. Manage ports
13. Manage floating IPs

LAB EXERCISES

1. Neutron CLI
2. Working with security groups
3. Debugging data flows
4. Manage network as a tenant
5. Create Neutron load-balancer (optional)

1. Ceilometer background and use cases
2. Ceilometer architecture
3. Ceilometer meters and pipelines
4. Ceilometer deployment

LAB EXERCISES

1. Ceilometer health check
2. Start instance
3. Check VM with ceilometer
4. Alarm setup

1. Heat Overview
2. Architecture
3. AWS CloudFormation template format
4. Heat services
5. heat-api
6. heat-cfn-api
7. heat-engine
8. Configuring Heat
9. Configuring images for use with Heat
10. Creating a stack

LAB EXERCISES

1. Basic static template
2. Template using input parameters and environment
3. Nested templates
4. Template with auto-scaling

1. Swift Overview
2. Swift Architecture
3. Accounts, containers, objects, and rings
4. Nodes types : auth, proxy, storage
5. Partitions, zones, replication
6. Using Swift
7. Accounts
8. Creating and managing objects
9. Object server management
10. Container server management
11. Account server management
12. Proxy server management
13. Ring management
14. Large objects

LAB EXERCISES

1. Start storage nodes and configure swift
2. Upload files
3. Practice ACL and Expiration usage
4. Swift backend for glance