OpenStack Private Cloud Administration Training

1. INTRODUCTION

• Overview
• Core Projects
• Core Project - Nova
• Core Project - Neutron
• Core Project - Glance, Cinder
• Core Project - Ceilometer
• Core Project - Heat
• Core Project - Swift
• OpenStack Architecture
• Virtual Machine Provisioning Walk Through

LAB EXERCISES

• Understanding the classroom environment
• Perform initial health check
• Test instance creation

2. CONTROLLER NODE

• Overview Horizon and OpenStack
• Keystone Architecture
• Keystone workflow (simplified)
• Keystone Services
• Keystone backends
• Keystone v3 – domains/groups
• Keystone - User/tenant maintenance
• Keystone – service catalog
• Service APIs + keystone
• Troubleshooting Keystone - Cases
• Openstack messaging - AMQP
• OpenStack Messaging and Queues
• Messaging example with Oslo-RPC
• Message Queue Configuration
• Troubleshooting RabbitMQ - Service
• Message Queue Configuration
• Image Management
• Glance overview
• Glance CLI overview
• Troubleshooting Glance - Cases

LAB EXERCISES

• Keystone
• Glance

3. CINDER

• Block Storage
• Volume creation flow
• Volume operations
• Cinder CLI - create
• Cinder CLI – extend
• Cinder CLI - snapshot
• Cinder CLI – backup/restore
• Cinder – encrypted volumes
• Encrypted volumes - CLI
• Cinder quotas
• Troubleshooting Cinder - Cases
• Considerations for block storage

LAB EXERCISES

• Create volume
• Attach volume to an instance
• Extend a volume
• Using snapshot
• GlusterFS as backend for Cinder (optional)

4. COMPUTE NODE

• Linux virtualization basics
• Hypervisors, KVM, Linux bridges
• VM Placement
• VM provisioning in-depth
• Instance management
• Nova CLI overview
• Boot/Terminate Instance
• Attach volume to instance

LAB EXERCISES

• Setup
• VM placement
• Instance post configuration
• Image customization
• Migration (optional)

5. NETWORK NODE

• Networking in OpenStack
• OpenStack Networking Concepts
• Nova-network vs. Neutron
• Neutron architecture and plugins
• OpenVSwitch concepts
• Neutron agents
• Network management
• Neutron CLI overview
• Manage networks
• Manage subnets
• Manager routers
• Manage ports
• Manage floating IPs

LAB EXERCISES

• Neutron CLI
• Working with security groups
• Debugging data flows
• Manage network as a tenant
• Create Neutron load-balancer (optional)

6. CEILOMETER

• Ceilometer background and use cases
• Ceilometer architecture
• Ceilometer meters and pipelines
• Ceilometer deployment

LAB EXERCISES

• Ceilometer health check
• Start instance
• Check VM with ceilometer
• Alarm setup

7. HEAT

• Heat Overview
• Architecture
• AWS CloudFormation template format
• Heat services
• heat-api
• heat-cfn-api
• heat-engine
• Configuring Heat
• Configuring images for use with Heat
• Creating a stack

LAB EXERCISES

• Basic static template
• Template using input parameters and environment
• Nested templates
• Template with auto-scaling

8. OBJECT STORAGE SERVICE - SWIFT

• Swift Overview
• Swift Architecture
• Accounts, containers, objects, and rings
• Nodes types : auth, proxy, storage
• Partitions, zones, replication
• Using Swift
• Accounts
• Creating and managing objects
• Object server management
• Container server management
• Account server management
• Proxy server management
• Ring management
• Large objects

LAB EXERCISES

• Start storage nodes and configure swift
• Upload files
• Practice ACL and Expiration usage
• Swift backend for glance