OpenStack Administration & Operations (OS 220) Course Details:

The OpenStack Administration and Operations course is a 3 day class designed to provide you with a complete experience with administering and operating the most common OpenStack components to implement Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a private cloud; from image management to instance creation to network plugins and more.

All Mirantis OpenStack courses are vendor agnostic. Tasks are performed in an OpenStack environment without any vendor add-ons that might change the way OpenStack works. Reference implementations are utilized, such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for Block Storage, Open vSwitch (OVS) for L2 networking, or KVM/QEMU for the hypervisor.

    No classes are currenty scheduled for this course.

    Call (919) 283-1674 to get a class scheduled online or in your area!

  • Laptop with WiFi connectivity
  • Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io.

*Please Note: Course Outline is subject to change without notice. Exact course outline will be provided at time of registration.
  • Keystone (Identity service): Authenticating with Keystone, managing tokens, RBAC policies, & the purpose of the Service Catalog
  • Glance (Image service): Creating & managing images, options to build an image, the purpose of cloud-init
  • Neutron (Network service): Understand what networks OpenStack uses, such as, the management network. Neutron architecture, including plugins, namespaces, layer 2 protocols, layer 3 routing, Neutron security groups, and more.
  • Nova (Compute service): Using Nova to deploy virtual machine (VM) instances & control where the instances are deployed. Deploying instances with SSH keys for better security. Understanding the supported hypervisors. Lastly, implementing resource quotas.
  • Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.
  • Octavia (LBaaS): Use the CLI to create & manage a load balancer and load balancer resources
  • Ceilometer / Aodh (Telemetry services): Discuss the role & architecture of each component.
  • Laptop with WiFi connectivity
  • Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io.
  • Skills:
    • Basic understanding of cloud and virtualization technologies
    • Basic hypervisor skills are beneficial, such as KVM or VMware, but not required
    • Basic Linux skills
    • Basic understanding of OpenStackBasic understanding of OpenStack
  • Motivations: Learn the critical skills needed to operate and administer an OpenStack environment
  • Roles: System/network administrators, Technical IT Professionals, Deployment engineers, Cloud administrators, & Cloud operations

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