OST104 OpenStack Private Cloud Administration

Prerequisites:

Basic Linux systems administration (GL250), networking, and virtualization.

Supported Distributions: Newton

1. Controller Node
   1. Overview Horizon and OpenStack
   2. Keystone Architecture
   3. Keystone workflow (simplified)
   4. Keystone Services
   5. Keystone backends
   6. Keystone v3 – domains/groups
   7. Keystone - User/tenant maintenance
   8. Keystone – service catalog
   9. Service APIs + keystone
   10. Troubleshooting Keystone - Cases
   11. Openstack messaging - AMQP
   12. OpenStack Messaging and Queues
   13. Messaging example with Oslo-RPC
   14. Message Queue Configuration
   15. Troubleshooting RabbitMQ - Service
   16. Message Queue Configuration
   17. Image Management
   18. Glance overview
   19. Glance CLI overview
   20. Troubleshooting Glance - Cases
   Lab Exercises
   1. Keystone
   2. Glance
2. Cinder
   1. Block Storage
   2. Volume creation flow
   3. Volume operations
   4. Cinder CLI - create
   5. Cinder CLI – extend
   6. Cinder CLI - snapshot
   7. Cinder CLI – backup/restore
   8. Cinder – encrypted volumes
   9. Encrypted volumes - CLI
   10. Cinder quotas
   11. Troubleshooting Cinder - Cases
   12. Considerations for block storage
   Lab Exercises
   1. Create volume
   2. Attach volume to an instance
   3. Extend a volume
   4. Using snapshot
   5. GlusterFS as backend for Cinder (optional)
3. Ceilometer
   1. Ceilometer background and use cases
   2. Ceilometer architecture
   3. Ceilometer meters and pipelines
   4. Ceilometer deployment
   Lab Exercises
   1. Ceilometer health check
   2. Start instance
   3. Check VM with ceilometer
   4. Alarm setup
4. Heat
   1. Heat Overview
   2. Architecture
   3. AWS CloudFormation template format
   4. Heat services
   5. heat-api
   6. heat-cfn-api
   7. heat-engine
   8. Configuring Heat
   9. Configuring images for use with Heat
   10. Creating a stack
   Lab Exercises
   1. Basic static template
   2. Template using input parameters and environment
   3. Nested templates
   4. Template with auto-scaling
5. Object Storage Service - Swift
   1. Swift Overview
   2. Swift Architecture
   3. Accounts, containers, objects, and rings
   4. Nodes types : auth, proxy, storage
   5. Partitions, zones, replication
   6. Using Swift
   7. Accounts
   8. Creating and managing objects
   9. Object server management
   10. Container server management
   11. Account server management
   12. Proxy server management
   13. Ring management
   14. Large objects
   Lab Exercises
   1. Start storage nodes and configure swift
   2. Upload files
   3. Practice ACL and Expiration usage
   4. Swift backend for glance