Certified OpenStack Administrator Course — Course Topics
Introduction to Cloud Computing and Open Stack
- Fundamentals of Cloud Computing Different types of cloud.
- Different types of cloud services.
- What is Open Source?
- Comparing Open Stack with other Clouds.
- Open Stack Architecture and terminology.
Deploying Open Stack
- Requirements, Capacity Planning.
- Open vSwitch Configuration.
- Deploying Open Stack.
- Adding a Compute Node.
Horizon Web Interface
- Creating a Project.
- Creating a User.
- Managing Flavors on Horizon.
- Manage compute instance actions (e.g. launch, shutdown, terminate).
Managing RabbitMQ Messenger Broker
- Verifying and managing the message broker installation.
- What is RabbitMQ Messenger Broker?
- Understanding the workflow.
Keystone Identity Service
- Verifying the Keystone Identity Service.
- Adding services to the keystone service catalog.
- Creating and Managing Users with Keystone commands.
- Defining Roles and assigning roles to user.
- Troubleshooting Keystone.
Swift Object Storage Service
- 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.
Glance Image Service
- Verifying the Glance Image Service.
- Storing Images.
- Using glance commands.
- Using Swift as backend Store for Glance.
Cinder Block Storage Service
- Block Storage Services (Four services are collectively called Block storage or Cinder).
- Block Storage supported drivers.
- Verifying the Cinder.
- Creating and Managing cinder volumes by command line.
Neutron Networking Service
- Verifying the Neutron Service.
- Configuring Networking for a Tenant via Command line.
- Neutron Workflow.
- Troubleshooting the Neutron networking service.
Nova Compute Service
- What is Nova?
- Overcommitting Nova Resources.
- Verifying the Nova services.
- Launching an Instance via the nova command line.
- Nova workflow.
- Managing a nova-compute node.
- How to add a new Nova compute node.
Heat Orchestration
- What is Heat Orchestration Service?
- Configuring the Heat Orchestration Service.
- Launching a Stack.