OpenStack Administration 2 — advanced operations and production

• Operate the containerized architecture and troubleshoot the control plane.
• Back up, restore and validate the control plane recovery procedure.
• Harden the infrastructure: file integrity, management network, secrets.
• Integrate an identity directory and customize access policies.
• Operate the distributed virtual network and advanced network services.
• Govern instance placement and conduct a structured investigation.

• Private cloud administrators and operators.
• Cloud architects and SRE engineers.
• Infrastructure platform managers.

• OpenStack Administration 1 and hands-on cloud operations experience.
• Advanced Linux administration and container basics.

Day 1 — Control plane and recovery

• Containerized architecture, volumes and deployment method comparison
• Control plane services: state, communication and messaging
• Control plane backup: database, configurations, certificates

Day 2 — Restore and infrastructure security

• Control plane restore and procedure validation
• End-to-end encrypted services and certificate management
• File integrity checking and management network hardening

Day 3 — Identities and access control

• Identity directory integration and multi-domain management
• Authentication tokens: lifecycle and key rotation
• Access policy customization and advanced quotas

Day 4 — Images, storage and virtual networking

• Image formats, custom images and advanced initialization
• Advanced storage: volumes, object gateway and shared file storage
• Distributed virtual network architecture and overlay tunnels

Day 5 — Placement, observability and diagnostics

• Provider networks, flow analysis and advanced network services
• Availability zones, host aggregates and affinity groups
• Monitoring, centralized logging and investigation methodology