Openstack private cloud workshop (Extended) OST-104

• Describing the basics of cloud systems generally and the open source
• Openstack solution specifically
• Presenting the Openstack architecture
• Identifying the main components of an Openstack cloud system
• Learning the details of the controller node
• Learning the details of the compute node
• Learning the details of the networking node
• Learning the details of the Ceilometer metering solution
• Learning the details of the Heat orchestration services
• Using Swift as an object store
• Using Ceph as a scalable distributed backend for OpenStack services

50% theory 50% hands on lab exercises

Developers, Sys.Admins and Dev.Ops wanting to obtain an initial knowledge about the Openstack open source cloud system.

Basic Linux sys.admin, networking as well as virtualization knowledge,

4 day

1. Introduction
• Overview
• Core Projects
• Nova
• Neutron
• Glance, Cinder
• Ceilometer
• Heat
• Swift
• OpenStack Architecture
• Virtual Machine Provisioning Walk-Through
• Lab 1
• Understanding the classroom environment
• Perform initial health check
• Test instance creation
2. Controller Node
• Overview Horizon and OpenStack
• Keystone Architecture
• User Management
• Keystone CLI overview
• OpenStack Messaging and Queues
• Message Queue Configuration
• Image Management (Glance)
• Glance CLI overview
• Creation of custom images
• OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder)
• Cinder CLI overview
• Managing volumes
• Lab 2
• Create and manage users, roles, tenants, quotas
• Create and manage images
• Create and manage volumes
• Check messaging
3. 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 3
• Configure flat networking
• Create and manage vm instances
• Configure VM metadata
4. 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
• Manage routers
• Manage ports
• Manage floating IPs
• Lab 4
• Create routers, networks, subnets
• Associate floating IPs
• Throubleshoot Neutron networking
5. Ceilometer
• Ceilometer background and usecases
• Ceilometer architecture
• Ceilometer meters and pipelines
• Ceilometer deployment
• Lab 5
• Working with ceilometer
6. 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 6
• Creating a stack
7. Openstack Object Store (Swift)
• Swift Overview
• Swift Architecture
• Accounts, containers, objects, 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