A one-day modular course that covers the basics of OpenStack and Cloud Computing. The course candidates will get to learn about the inner workings of the OpenStack IaaS components and get to use their very own OpenStack installation via the Horizon and the CLI. The course is designed as 50% theory and 50% labs so the candidates get a good understanding of OpenStack, it’s benefits for the enterprise, any version-related limitations and how it ties into Cloud Computing. 

• OpenStack Compute
• OpenStack Object Storage
• OpenStack Image Service
• OpenStack Networking
• OpenStack Dashboard
• OpenStack Identity
• OpenStack Block Storage

Course Audience

The course is designed to allow technical IT professionals with no experience or knowledge of OpenStack to learn about the essentials, understand the software suite and start working with OpenStack in production. Prior experience in virtualization, OpenSource operating systems and basic posix command line skills and networking experience are desired but not mandatory to attend this course.

Course Objectives

- Learn about the OpenStack Foundation Comunity and Software
- Describe the IaaS funcionality of an Openstack installation 
- Describe the mechanisms and services that provide functionality to OpenStack 
- Identify the use cases and have the ability to plan a production deployment 
- Have the ability to perform basic service level troubleshooting 
- Manage identity task in OpenStack 
- Get hands on experience in creating and deploying instances, manage users, roles, projects, etc. through Dashboard And CLI

Course Overview

On day one, students attending the course will get an overview of the OpenStack comunity and software. The course focuses on IaaS, we explain the core architecture and the component relationships. The course also provides a brief introduction to other integrated (Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara etc.) and incubated programs to outline the capabilities an OpenStack installation can provide. This gives the students the ability to start with the hands on labs for which about 50% of time is dedicated. 
Day two is dedicated to offer a deeper look at OpenStack networking and storage concepts and to test those concepts out in the labs. 
Day three is dedicated to deployment models, tools and strategies, production grade deployment requirements and troubleshooting.

Agenda Overview

1. OpenStack IaaS Components Overview 
- Keystone, Horizon, Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder and Swift 
- Arhitecture and authentication 
- Database 
- Message Queue 
- Authentication flows 

2. Component interaction and workflow

3. Higher level *aaS Program 
- Heat, Ceilometer, 

4. OpenStack Networking Concepts 
- OpenStack Networking History 
- Neutron networking concepts and plugins 
- Virtualizing networks with OpenVSwitch 

5. OpenStack Storage Concepts 
- Cinder Volume Concepts 
- Swift Object Storage 

6. OpenStack Deployment 
- Deployment Scenarios 
- Deployment Tools 
- Production Grade Considerations 

7. Troubleshooting and Discussion 
- Troubleshooting Overview 
- Discussion on Client-related Topics

A one-day modular course designed as a deep dive into OpenStack compute service Nova. The course candidates will get to learn about the inner workings of the OpenStack Nova program and get to use their very own OpenStack installation via the Horizon and the CLI. The course is designed as 50% theory and 50% labs so the candidates get a good understanding of how OpenStack compute can be managed in a real world production environment. 

• OpenStack Compute

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A one-day modular course that covers the OpenStack Neutron program in detail. The course candidates will get to learn about the inner workings of Neutron and it’s components and get to use their very own OpenStack installation via the Horizon and the CLI. The course is designed as 50% theory and 50% labs so the candidates get a good understanding of the reference model Neutron components, including the OVS, Neutron router, Neutron DVR etc. The candidates will have the ability to test the functions and capabilities, and get an overview of network troubleshooting. 

• OpenStack Networking

A one-day modular course that covers the OpenStack Swift and Cinder programs in detail. The course candidates will get to learn about the inner workings of OpenStack storage concepts and get to use their very own OpenStack installation via the Horizon and the CLI. The course is designed as 50% theory and 50% labs so the candidates get a good understanding of the reference model storage components and concepts, including the Swift and Cinder over LVM. The candidates will have the ability to test the functions and capabilities, and get an overview of storage troubleshooting. 

• OpenStack Object Storage
• OpenStack Block Storage

A two-day classroom course focusing on real-world, production grade deployments and orchestration – the course is designed with 70% hands-on labs and includes learning and using the Fuel Community deployment tool for production-grade deployments and utilising Heat for on-cloud orchestration.. 

• OpenStack Orchestration

A two-day classroom course focusing the challenges of storing peta-byte and zeta-byte scales of data and how how to solve the modern day datacenter storage requirements with Unified Storage. The course content contains an overview if the Unified Storage Architecture, benefits and challenges of OpenSource and learn about Ceph – an OpenSource Unified Distributed Storage System. The students will also learn how to design and build a unified storage environment with Ceph and how to operate it. The Course is designed with 50% labs. This course can be delivered as a standalone session or can be bundled into OpenStack Essentials, Basics, Networking and Storage.