Course Outline
- General architecture of OpenStack
- OpenStack lab (VM) for this course
- Message queue and database
- Hardware considerations and capacity planning
- Compute hardware
- Network design
- Storage design
- Flavour sizing
- Resource overcommitment
- Highly Available control plane
- HA in OpenStack services
- HA database
- HA message queue
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Why and how implement cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration
- Live migration tweaking
- Watcher project
- In-depth OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3h)
- Types of network (local, flat, vlan, vxlan, gre)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS + Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- Troubleshooting
- General way of diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Troubleshooting network problems
- Analyzing log files
- Centralized logging
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing OpenStack database
- Backing up OpenStack
- Analyzing compute node status
- Analyzing instance status
- Analyzing AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- Troubleshooting network performance
- Instance backup and recovery
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring
- Advances cloud/hypervisor features
- CPU pinning / NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrade
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- Future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Basic networking knowledge
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing paradigm
- Basic practical and theoretical knowledge of OpenStack
Testimonials (5)
The virtual desktop in a browser feature was kind of neat.
Mikael Karlsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
Damian, is very skilled, I'm very pleased with everything, no complains, best training session I've participated in for a long time… It's very difficult to have a training course like this, totally remote, you did a great job, It went very well, there were no issues.
Peter Erlandsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The flexibility to answer questions. Good pdf, good examples
Conny Vigstrom - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The broad perspective of Openstack, no chance to dive in to deep to be able to keep schedule, more to where to get information from.
Jorgen Selegran - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
To get a better understanding about OpenStack.