Red Hat OpenStack Administration II: Infrastructure Configuration for Cloud Administrators

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Overview

This course focuses on managing and using the OpenStack client command-line interface and the director and dashboard graphical web user interfaces to securely manage server instances, compute and storage resources, and user identities. During the course, participants will learn how to choose and customize compute, storage, networking, deployment, and application support resources and services tailored to your enterprise needs. The course equips the participants with the skills and knowledge for navigating and managing the control plane on the undercloud and overcloud, and troubleshooting typical OpenStack operations.

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What You'll learn

Gain familiarity with overcloud service containerization technology
Learn about Open Virtual Networking (OVN) enhancement to OVS
Use identity service v3 (keystone) with external Red Hat IdM store
Manage the core control plane, including Pacemaker
Customize images, with techniques for multiple use cases
Manage block and object storage
Manage compute nodes, including tuning and hyperconvergence
Deploy multi-container stacks
Troubleshoot OpenStack

Curriculum

Module 1: Navigate the Red Hat OpenStack Platform architecture

Describe the classroom environment, support systems, functions of the undercloud components, and more

Module 2: Describe the OpenStack control plane

Identify the shared services running on a controller node and describe service endpoint configuration and security

Module 3: Integrate identity management

Describe the installation and architecture of a Red Hat Identity Management back end for the OpenStack identity service

Module 4: Perform image operations

Build an image using diskimage-builder and customize launched instances during deployment using cloud-init

Module 5: Manage storage

Explain persistent storage options for use in OpenStack, focusing on the expanding capabilities of the default Red Hat® Ceph Storage

Module 6: Manage OpenStack networking

Explain the different network types available to the OpenStack networking service
Improve network performance with Open Virtual Network

Module 7: Manage compute resources

Perform common compute node administration tasks, including live migration, evacuation, and enabling and disabling compute nodes

Module 8: Automate cloud applications

Explain the orchestration architecture required to deploy application stacks and write templates using the Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) language

Module 9: Troubleshoot OpenStack operations

Discuss the recommended diagnostic and troubleshooting tools and techniques

Module 10: Comprehensive review

Build a custom image and launch an instance using the custom image

Prerequisites

To attend this course, participants must be Red Hat Certified System Administrators (RHCSA) or demonstrate equivalent experience. Participants must also attend the Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Cloud Operators course, or demonstrate equivalent experience.