This hands-on workshop aims to introduce a set of tools for automating infrastructure deployment, network troubleshooting, and traffic monitoring on OpenStack clouds. Members of the audience will be provided access to their own dedicated OpenStack environment. We begin by introducing Heat Orchestration Templates, and provisioning a 3-tier app in the OpenStack cloud. This exercise highlights automated network configuration of both virtual and physical network workloads. We then gain hands-on experience with advanced network troubleshooting techniques. The speaker will then guide the audience in the process of deploying monitoring infrastructure. Attendees will be provided free access to online OpenStack labs for an additional three months.
Attendees will learn how to deploy infrastructure for a team of developers in an OpenStack cloud. In addition to compute and storage, firewalls and load balancers will be service chained to provide performance and security. The audience will become acquainted with declarative-style languages for describing infrastructure.