The OpenStack Administration and Operations course is a 4 day class designed to provide you with a complete experience with administering and operating the most common OpenStack components to implement Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a private cloud; from image management to instance creation to network plugins and more.At the end of this course, you have the skills required to pass the COA exam.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
• 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
TARGET AUDIENCE:
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
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
• 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
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FOLLOW ON COURSES:
OS320 – Advanced OpenStack DeploymentBundle Up: OS250 – OpenStack Administration Bootcamp
