OpenStack Administration Training Course

1. Introduction to OpenStack for Government

• History of the cloud and OpenStack
• Key features of cloud computing
• Cloud deployment models
  • Private, public, and hybrid clouds
  • On-premise, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Public and private cloud deployments utilizing OpenStack for government
• Open source and commercial distributions of OpenStack for government use
• Deployment models for OpenStack in the public sector
• The OpenStack ecosystem
  • Modules and components
  • Underlying tools and technologies
  • Integrations with other systems
• Lifecycle management of OpenStack for government operations
• Certification processes for OpenStack in the public sector
• OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course

2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop for Government

• Familiarizing with OpenStack for government
  • Overview of OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
  • Interacting with the OpenStack cloud environment
  • Understanding OpenStack daemons and API communication flow
• Keystone - Identity Management Service for Government
  • Concepts of domains, projects, users, and roles
  • Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints
  • Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles
  • Verifying Keystone service operations
• Glance - Image Service for Government
  • Image features (properties, metadata, format, container)
  • Uploading and downloading images
  • Sharing images between users or projects
  • Managing quotas for the image service
  • Verifying Glance service functionality
• Neutron - Networking for Government
  • Basic Neutron network resource types
  • Managing tenant networks and subnets
  • Configuring security groups and rules
  • East-West routing within the cloud
  • Network namespaces management
  • Managing external or provider networks
  • North-South routing to external networks
  • Floating IP address management
  • Managing network quotas and limitations
  • Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.)
  • Verifying Neutron service operations
• Nova - Compute Service for Government
  • Interfaces to hypervisors and virtualization platforms
  • Keypair management for secure access
  • Flavor management for different instance types
  • Instance parameters and configurations
  • Creating and launching instances
  • Verifying the status of spawned instances
  • Snapshotting and image creation from running instances
  • Managing instances (start, stop, resize, etc.)
  • Assigning floating IPs for external access
  • Interactive console and console log access
  • Assigning security groups to instances
  • Compute quotas management
  • Retrieving statistics from Nova
  • Understanding Placement API and Nova Cells v2 architecture
  • Verifying Nova service operations
• Cinder - Block Storage for Government
  • Volume parameters and configurations
  • Creating and managing volumes
  • Attaching volumes to Nova instances
  • Managing volume snapshots for data protection
  • Managing volume backups and restore operations
  • Restoring from backups
  • Managing volume quotas and limits
  • Adding new storage backends (LVM, storage array, Ceph)
  • Ceph integration with OpenStack for government
  • Verifying Cinder service operations
• Swift - Object Storage for Government
  • Swift components and processes
  • Managing containers and objects within Swift
  • Configuring access control lists (ACLs)
  • Setting up object expiration policies
  • The Ring and storage policies in Swift
  • Monitoring available storage space and usage
  • Setting up quotas for object storage
  • Verifying Swift service operations
• Heat - Orchestration for Government
  • Understanding Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) and its components
  • Creating and deploying Heat stacks
  • Verifying the status of deployed Heat stacks
  • Updating existing Heat stacks
  • Verifying Heat service operations