OpenStack Administration - Basic + Intermediate

1. Introduction to OpenStack (theory + practical tips)

• History
  • History of cloud and OpenStack
• Cloud features
• Cloud models
  • Private, Public, Hybrid
• Clouds based on OpenStack
  • Public clouds
  • Private cloud deployments
• Distributions
  • Open source
  • Commercial
• Deployment models
  • Manual
  • Configuration management
• OpenStack ecosystem
  • Modules
  • Underlying tools
  • Integrations
• OpenStack lifecycle
• OpenStack certification
• OpenStack lab (VM) for this course

• Getting to know OpenStack
  • Understand the components that make up the cloud
  • Use the OpenStack API/CLI
• Identity management
  • Manage Keystone catalogue services and endpoints
  • Manage/Create domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Create roles for the environment
  • Manage the identity service
  • Verify operation of the Identity service
• Dashboard
  • Verify operation of the Dashboard
• Compute
  • Manage flavors
  • Manage compute instance actions (e.g. launch, shutdown, terminate)
  • Manage Nova user keypairs
  • Launch a new instance
  • Shutdown an Instance
  • Terminate Instance
  • Configure an Instance with a Floating IP address
  • Manage project security group rules
  • Assign security group to Instance
  • Assign floating IP address to Instance
  • Detach floating IP address from Instance
  • Manage Nova host consoles (rdp, spice, tty)
  • Access an Instance using a keypair
  • Manage instance snapshots
  • Manage Nova compute servers
  • Manage quotas
  • Get Nova stats (hosts, services, tenants
  • Verify operation of the Compute service
• Object Storage
  • Manage access to object storage
  • Manage expiring objects
  • Manage storage policies
  • Monitor space available for object store
  • Verify operation of Object Storage
  • Manage permissions on a container in object storage
• Block Storage
  • Manage volume
  • Create volume group for block storage
  • Create a new Block Storage Volume and mount it to a Nova Instance
  • Manage quotas
  • Manage volumes quotas
  • Manage volumes backups
  • Backup and restore volumes
  • Manage volume snapshots (e.g, take, list, recover)
  • Verify that block storage can perform snapshotting function
  • Snapshot volume
  • Manage volumes encryption
  • Set up storage pools
  • Monitor reserve capacity of block storage devices
  • Analyze discrepancies in reported volume sizes
• Networking
  • Manage network resources (e.g., routers, subnets)
  • Create external networks
  • Create project networks
  • Create project routers
  • Manage network services for a virtual environment
  • Manage project security group rules
  • Manage quotas
  • Verify operation of network service
  • Manage network interfaces on compute instances
  • Troubleshoot network issues for a tenant network (enter namespace, run tcpdump, etc)
• Heat/Orchestration
  • Launch a stack using a Heat/Orchestration template (e.g., storage, network, and compute
  • Use Heat/Orchestration CLI and Dashboard
  • Verify Heat/Orchestration stack is working
  • Verify operation of Heat/Orchestration
  • Create a Heat/Orchestration template that matches a specific scenario
  • Update a stack
  • Obtain detailed information about a stack
• Troubleshooting
  • Analyze log files
  • Backup the database(s) used by an OpenStack instance
  • Centralize and analyze logs (e.g.,/var/log/COMPONENT_NAME, Database Server, Messaging Server, Web Server, syslog)
  • Analyze database servers
  • Analyze Host/Guest OS and Instance status
  • Analyze messaging servers
  • Analyze metadata servers
  • Analyze network status (physical & virtual)
  • Analyze storage status (local, block & object)
  • Manage OpenStack Services
  • Diagnose service incidents
  • Digest OpenStack environment (Controller, Compute, Storage and Network nodes)
  • Direct logging files through centralized logging system
  • Backup and restore an OpenStack instance
  • Troubleshoot network performance
• Image management
  • Deploy a new image to an OpenStack instance
  • Manage image types and backends
  • Manage images (e.g. add, update, remove)
  • Verify operation of the Image Service

• Capacity Planning and hardware considerations
  • Flavour sizing
  • Resource overcommitment
• Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
  • Ironic module
  • Undercloud and overcloud concepts
• Workload migration
  • Cold and live migration
• Highly Available control plane
  • HA in OpenStack services
  • HA database
  • HA message bus
• In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN)
  • Types of network
  • LBaaS
  • VPNaaS
• OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
  • Ceilometer service
  • External monitoring
• Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
  • Why and how implement cloud partitions
  • Nova scheduler filters
• Upgrading OpenStack
  • Upgrade strategies and procedures
  • Zero-downtime upgrade
• Advances cloud/hypervisor features
  • CPU pinning
  • SR-IOV
• Future of OpenStack