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Course Outline
1. Introduction to OpenStack for Government
- History of the cloud and OpenStack
- Cloud features relevant to government operations
- Cloud models
- Private, public, hybrid clouds for government use
- On-premise, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) for government
- Public and private cloud deployments based on OpenStack for government agencies
- Open source and commercial OpenStack distributions suitable for government environments
- OpenStack deployment models tailored for government needs
- OpenStack ecosystem
- Modules supporting government operations
- Underlying tools for efficient government cloud management
- Integrations with existing government systems
- OpenStack lifecycle management for government agencies
- OpenStack certification processes for government personnel
- OpenStack lab (VM) setup for this course, tailored to government training needs
2. Hands-on OpenStack Administration Workshop for Government
- Getting to know OpenStack
- Key OpenStack components (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat)
- Interaction with the OpenStack cloud environment
- Communication flow between OpenStack daemons and APIs
- Keystone - Identity Management Service
- Management of domains, projects, users, and roles for government use
- Managing Keystone catalog services and endpoints in a government context
- Creating and managing domains, groups, projects, users, and roles for government operations
- Verification of Keystone services to ensure compliance with government standards
- Glance - Image Service
- Image features (properties, metadata, format, container) for government applications
- Uploading and downloading images in a government cloud environment
- Sharing images across government agencies
- Managing quotas for the image service to meet government requirements
- Verification of Glance services to ensure reliability for government use
- Neutron - Networking
- Basic Neutron network resource types for government networks
- Managing tenant networks and subnets in a government cloud
- Managing security groups and rules to enhance government data protection
- East-West routing within government clouds
- Network namespaces management for government environments
- Managing external/provider networks for government connectivity
- North-South routing in a government cloud infrastructure
- Floating IP management to support government operations
- Managing network quotas to optimize government resource allocation
- Basic network troubleshooting techniques (namespaces, tcpdump, etc.) for government IT teams
- Verification of Neutron services to ensure secure and efficient government networking
- Nova - Compute Service
- Interfaces to hypervisors in a government cloud environment
- Keypair management for secure government operations
- Flavor management to meet diverse government computing needs
- Instance parameters and configurations for government applications
- Creating instances to support government services
- Verification of spawned instances to ensure compliance with government standards
- Snapshotting for data backup and recovery in a government context
- Instance management techniques for efficient government cloud operations
- Assigning floating IPs to enhance connectivity in government networks
- Interactive console and console log access for government administrators
- Security groups assignment to protect government data
- Compute quotas to optimize resource allocation for government agencies
- Getting statistics from Nova to inform government decision-making
- Placement API and Nova Cells v2 for advanced government cloud management
- Verification of Nova services to ensure reliability for government use
- Cinder - Block Storage
- Volume parameters for government storage needs
- Creating and managing volumes in a government cloud environment
- Attaching volumes to Nova instances for government applications
- Managing volume snapshots for data protection in government operations
- Managing volume backups and restoring from backups for government data recovery
- Managing volume quotas to optimize storage usage for government agencies
- Adding new storage backends to support government cloud infrastructure
- LVM, storage array, and Ceph storage backends for government use
- Ceph integration with OpenStack for robust government storage solutions
- Verification of Cinder services to ensure reliability for government operations
- Swift - Object Storage
- Swift components and processes tailored for government use
- Managing containers and objects in a government cloud environment
- Managing access control lists to secure government data
- Setting up object expiration policies for government operations
- The Ring and storage policies for efficient government storage management
- Monitoring available storage space to optimize resource allocation for government agencies
- Setting up quotas to ensure fair and efficient use of government storage resources
- Verification of Swift services to ensure reliability for government operations
- Heat - Orchestration
- Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) and its components for government applications
- Creating Heat stacks to support complex government cloud deployments
- Verification of Heat stacks to ensure compliance with government standards
- Updating Heat stacks to adapt to changing government requirements
- Verification of Heat services to ensure reliability for government use
- Basic Troubleshooting
- Analyzing log files to diagnose issues in a government cloud environment
- Centralized logging for efficient government IT management
- Debugging OpenStack client queries to resolve issues quickly for government operations
- Managing the OpenStack database to ensure data integrity for government applications
- Backing up OpenStack to protect government data
- Analyzing compute node status to optimize performance in a government cloud
- Analyzing instance status to ensure reliability of government services
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ) for efficient message passing in government operations
- Metadata services management for secure government data handling
- A general approach to diagnosing OpenStack issues in a government context
- Troubleshooting network problems to ensure connectivity in government networks
- Troubleshooting network performance to optimize speed and reliability for government operations
- Instance backup and recovery strategies for government data protection
3. Advanced Topics for Government OpenStack Deployment
- Hardware Considerations and Capacity Planning
- Compute hardware selection for government cloud environments
- Network design to support government operations
- Storage design to meet government data requirements
- Flavor sizing to optimize resource allocation for government applications
- Resource overcommitment strategies for efficient government cloud management
- Highly Available Control Plane
- Implementing high availability (HA) in OpenStack services for government use
- HA database configurations to ensure data reliability for government operations
- HA message queue setups to enhance communication in government clouds
- Cloud Partitioning and Scheduler Filters
- Reasons and methods for implementing cloud partitions (host-aggregates) in a government context
- Nova scheduler filters to optimize resource allocation for government applications
- Workload Migration
- Cold and live migration techniques for efficient government cloud management
- Tweaking live migration settings to enhance performance in government operations
- The Watcher project for automated workload optimization in government clouds
- In-depth OpenStack Networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Types of networks (local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE) suitable for government use
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge for simple network configurations in government clouds
- Open vSwitch for advanced networking capabilities in government environments
- Distributed Virtual Routers (DVR) to enhance routing in government networks
- Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) and the Octavia project for efficient load distribution in government clouds
- Virtual Private Network as a Service (VPNaaS) for secure government network connections
- OpenStack Monitoring and Telemetry
- Ceilometer service for comprehensive monitoring of government cloud resources
- External monitoring tools to enhance visibility into government cloud operations
- Advanced Cloud/Hypervisor Features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture to optimize performance in government applications
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) for enhanced network performance in government clouds
- Cloud-init and Image Customization
- Metadata Service management to support customized cloud images for government use
- Block Storage Backends
- LVM (Logical Volume Manager) for flexible storage solutions in government clouds
- Ceph RBD (RADOS Block Device) for scalable and reliable storage in government environments
- Physical appliances to support legacy systems in government cloud infrastructure
- Storage network considerations to ensure efficient data transfer in government operations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures for government cloud environments
- Zero-downtime upgrade methods to minimize disruption in government operations
- Bare-metal Provisioning with OpenStack
- The Ironic module for bare-metal provisioning in government clouds
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts to support complex government cloud deployments
- The Future of OpenStack for Government
Requirements
- Basic Linux administration skills for government IT systems
- Foundational networking knowledge
- Elementary understanding of the cloud computing model
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