OpenStack Cloud Administration Fundamentals Training

OpenStack Cloud Administration Fundamentals

A focused course for Linux professionals building an OpenStack based private cloud. The agenda concentrates on installing the community edition, configuring core services, and administering a small production ready environment with clear operations patterns.

What will you learn?

You will plan and install a minimal but realistic OpenStack environment, configure identity, compute, networking, and storage, and manage projects and users. You will perform common admin tasks, monitor health, and troubleshoot issues, with a view to scaling and hardening later.

Plan, install, and configure a community OpenStack control plane and a compute node
Configure Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, and Horizon for daily operations
Administer projects, quotas, networks, images, flavors, and access controls
Monitor, troubleshoot, back up, and prepare for scale out and high availability

Requirements:

Strong Linux administration skills
Familiarity with networking, virtualization, and basic storage concepts
Access to suitable hosts or a sandbox for controller and compute roles

Course Outline*:

*We know each team has their own needs and specifications. That is why we can modify the training outline per need.

Module 1: Architecture and deployment planning

Control plane layout API services, databases, message bus, caching
Service map Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Horizon, Placement
Node roles controller, compute, network, storage and sizing considerations
Deployment choices packages, Kolla Ansible overview, reference topologies

Module 2: Base install and control plane bring up

Prerequisites OS tuning, NTP, repositories, certificates
Shared services MariaDB or Galera, RabbitMQ, Memcached configuration
Keystone setup domains, projects, roles, and tokens
Glance image service configuration and base images

Module 3: Compute and networking essentials

Nova configuration controllers, schedulers, conductors, hypervisors
Neutron basics ML2, Open vSwitch, provider networks and tenant networks
IP addressing, DHCP, routers, floating IPs and security groups
Placement service registration and resource tracking

Module 4: Storage and access layers

Cinder configuration LVM reference backend and alternatives
Horizon admin and user views useful panels and safety settings
Image and flavor catalog standards for consistent workloads
Quotas and limits shaping resource consumption

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Module 5: Day 2 administration tasks

Project and user lifecycle onboarding, role assignment, and policies
Network and subnet management shared networks and segmentation patterns
Instance lifecycle images, metadata, keypairs, resizing, and evacuations
Backup baseline database dumps, configs, and image or volume strategies

Module 6: Security, policies, and multi tenancy

API access control Keystone policies and service roles
TLS for APIs and endpoints certificate strategy and termination
Secure images and flavors hardened defaults and metadata controls
Audit trails logging sources and change tracking

Module 7: Monitoring and observability

Service health checks and common CLI diagnostics
Log locations and patterns for Nova, Neutron, and Cinder
Metrics at a glance exporters, alerts, and capacity signals
Troubleshooting playbooks network reachability, scheduling, and volume attach

Module 8: Scale, upgrades, and next steps

Adding compute nodes and networking extensions SR-IOV and VLANs overview
Storage backends overview Ceph concepts and when to adopt
Upgrade paths minor and major release considerations and testing approach
Hardening and HA direction controllers, databases, and message bus

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OpenStack Cloud Administration Fundamentals

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