Course Description: OpenStack administration course teaches you the concepts of the cloud, cloud delivery models, cloud deployment models, OpenStack Architecture and how to install, configure and maintain a cloud computing environment using OpenStack Platform. Explore many interesting features of OpenStack Platform through hands-on labs. And also look at the future plans of the OpenStack development community. This course is designed for corporates & professionals who are already aware of Cloud technologies and have considerable experience working on Linux environment and are looking to quickly scale up to OpenStack. Course Topics: Module 1: Cloud Computing Background ● Why Cloud ● Delivery Models: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS ● Deployment Models: Public, Private, Hybrid ● Virtualization Overview ● Cloud Computing characteristics and layers ● IT roles in the cloud ● Risk assessment ● Cloud migration topics to consider Module 2: OpenStack components and architecture ● Definition and brief description of the functions of each OpenStack component ● Conceptual Architecture with a diagram shows how components are connected and the relation between them. ● Deploying Horizon. ● Dashboard customization. ● Storage concepts Module 3: OpenStack Compute I ● Introduction to OpenStack Compute ● Users and Tenants (Projects) ● Images and Instances ● OpenStack Compute and Block Storage Module 4: OpenStack Compute II ● Setting Configuration Options in the nova.conf File ● General Compute Configuration Overview ● Example nova.conf Configuration Files. ● Configuring File format for nova.conf and List of ● configuration options. ● Configuring Database connection ● Configuring Compute API ● Configuring quotas Module 5: Identity Management. ● Identity Service Concepts. ● SSL and Keystone Configuration. ● Sample configuration file, running, and initialize Keystone. ● Adding Users, Tenants, and Roles with python-keystone client ● Configuring Services to work with Keystone. ● Configuring Keystone SSL support. ● Using External Authentication with OpenStack Identity. ● Troubleshooting Identity (Keystone). Module 6: Image Management ● Configuring Tenant-specific Storage Locations for Images with Object Storage. ● Adding images with glance image-create. ● Booting a test image. ● Tearing down (deleting) Instances. ● Pausing and Suspending Instances. ● Select a specific host to boot instances on. ● Creating images from running instances with KVM and Xen. ● Replicating images across multiple data centers. Module 7: Instance Management ● Interfaces to managing instances. ● Instance building blocks. ● Creating instances. ● Controlling where instances run. ● Instance specific data. ● Configuring instances at boot time. ● Config drive. ● Managing instance networking. ● Manage Volumes. ● Accessing running instances. ● Stop and Start an Instance. ● Change Server Configuration. ● Instance evacuation. ● Terminate an Instance. Module 8: Hypervisors ● Selecting a Hypervisor ● Hypervisor Configuration Basics ● KVM ● PowerVM ● Qemu ● Bare Metal Driver Learning Goals: ● Defining the key terminology and principles of Cloud Computing for enterprise and industry case study practice. ● Identifying the OpenStack Project and it’s Components and architecture ● Explaining what images and instances are and description of the life cycle of a typical virtual system within the cloud and involving Cloud Computing Administrator into configuring and full deployment of OpenStack compute. ● Explaining detail OpenStack Cloud authorization and authentication mechanism. ● Providing the concept of hypervisors, different hypervisors types and product names, and how they work and be administered. ● Explaining to OpenStack Cloud Administrator how to deal with Cloud virtual machines images, include: booting, pausing, suspending, and replication. And how to deal with OpenStack Cloud virtual machines instances. Course Agenda: Day 1 ● Cloud Computing Background ● OpenStack components and architecture Day 2 ● OpenStack Compute I ● OpenStack Compute II Day 3 ● Identity Management Day 4 ● Image Management ● Instance Management Day 5 ● Hypervisors Who Can Attend? ● Linux system administrators and cloud administrators interested in, or responsible for, maintaining a private cloud ● IT Professionals wanting to formally learn about OpenStack and how to create a private, public cloud using OpenStack ● Organizations planning to implement their own private or public cloud ● IT professionals looking to enhance the credibility of your resume