The OpenStack Administration and Operations course is a 4 day class designed to provide you with a complete experience with administering and operating the most common OpenStack components to implement Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a private cloud; from image management to instance creation to network plugins and more.

At the completion of this course, you have the skills required to pass the COA exam.

• Keystone (Identity service): Authenticating with Keystone, managing tokens, RBAC policies, & the purpose of the Service Catalog
• Glance (Image service): Creating & managing images, options to build an image, the purpose of cloud-init
• Neutron (Network service): Understand what networks OpenStack uses, such as, the management network. Neutron architecture, including plugins, namespaces, layer 2 protocols, layer 3 routing, Neutron security groups, and more.
• Nova (Compute service): Using Nova to deploy virtual machine (VM) instances & control where the instances are deployed. Deploying instances with SSH keys for better security. Understanding the supported hypervisors. Lastly, implementing resource quotas.
• Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.
• Octavia (LBaaS): Use the CLI to create & manage a load balancer and load balancer resources
• Ceilometer / Aodh (Telemetry services): Discuss the role & architecture of each component. Review a sample application with load balancing and autoscaling

• Skills:
  • Basic understanding of cloud and virtualization technologies
  • Basic hypervisor skills are beneficial, such as KVM or VMware, but not required
  • Basic Linux skills
  • Basic understanding of OpenStackBasic understanding of OpenStack
• Motivations: Learn the critical skills needed to operate and administer an OpenStack environment
• Roles: System/network administrators, Technical IT Professionals, Deployment engineers, Cloud administrators, & Cloud operations

• Linux command line skills
• OS100 or equivalent experience, including:
  • Familiarity with the OpenStack Dashboard UI & command line client
• Although not required, an understanding of hypervisors, virtualization, networking, and storage concepts is beneficia