Overview
OS220 OpenStack Administration & Operations (Ussuri) is a comprehensive 4-day course focusing on administering and operating OpenStack components to implement Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a private cloud environment. Participants will gain practical experience with key OpenStack services and learn essential skills required for passing the COA exam.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
- Gain proficiency in administering and operating Keystone, Glance, Neutron, Nova, Cinder, Heat, Octavia, Ceilometer, and Aodh.
- Understand authentication methods, RBAC policies, image management, network configurations, instance deployment, block storage management, orchestration with Heat, load balancing with Octavia, and telemetry services.
- Learn about security compliance options, resource quotas, instance live migration, volume types, and alarm configurations.
- Utilize reference implementations such as LVM, Open vSwitch, and diskimage-create utility for block storage, networking, and load balancer management.
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of cloud and virtualization technologies.
- Familiarity with hypervisor technologies such as KVM or VMware (beneficial but not required).
- Basic Linux skills for system administration.
- Completion of OS100 or equivalent OpenStack experience.
- Access to a laptop with WiFi connectivity and the latest Chrome or Firefox browser installed.
Course Outline
- Authentication methods and RBAC policies.
- Managing tokens and security compliance options.
- Introduction to Service Catalog and implied roles.
- Image creation and management.
- Use of cloud-init and image metadata.
- Optimization techniques with image caching.
- Launching and managing instances
- Exploring instance live migration for seamless operation
- Understanding Neutron architecture and plugins.
- Configuring security groups and bandwidth limits.
- Implementation with Open vSwitch (OVS).
- Instance deployment and SSH key management.
- Resource quotas and server groups.
- Live migration and performance optimization.