OpenStack Administration 1 — running a private cloud day to day

• Understand the OpenStack architecture and how its services fit together.
• Manage projects, users, roles and resource quotas.
• Design project networks and provider networks.
• Launch and operate instances, private then publicly exposed.
• Administer storage: ephemeral disks, volumes, object and shared storage.
• Automate instance startup and orchestrate an application stack.

• Domain operators and cloud project administrators.
• Systems administrators and DevOps engineers.
• Project teams involved in a private cloud programme.

• Command-line Linux administration at a confirmed level.
• Virtualization and TCP/IP networking basics.

Day 1 — Architecture and identity

• Cloud overview, user profiles and service architecture
• Exploring the platform through the web console and command line
• Identity: domains, projects, users and role assignment

Day 2 — Governance and networking

• Resource quotas and project governance
• TCP/IP refresher and software-defined networking principles
• Project and provider networks, subnets and routers

Day 3 — Instances and block storage

• Resources required at launch: images and compute flavours
• Launching and verifying a non-public instance
• Ephemeral disks and persistent volumes

Day 4 — Storage strategies

• Snapshots, backups and volume restore
• S3- and Swift-compatible object storage
• Shared file storage and distributed file systems

Day 5 — Public access and automation

• Security groups, key pairs and floating IP addresses
• Customizing instances at startup
• Application stack orchestration, placement and knowledge validation