This course covers the fundamentals of the Openstack open source IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) cloud solution, used for creating private clouds. After a short cloud and Openstack primer, it presents the architecture of Openstack and introduces its base components in details such as the Horizon GUI dashboard and the Openstack CLI, the Keystone identity system, the Nova compute service, the Neutron network service and software defined networking, the Glance image service, the Cinder block storage service, the Ceilometer metering solution, the Heat orchestration services and the Swift object store. 

Structure

Detailed course outline

1. Introduction 

• Overview
• Core Projects: Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, Ceilometer, Heat, Swift
• OpenStack Architecture
• Virtual Machine Provisioning Walk-through

Lab1:

• Understanding the classroom environment
• Perform initial health-check
• Test instance creation

2. Controller Node

•  Overview Horizon and Openstack
• Keystone Architecture > User management, Keystone CLI Overview
• OpenStack messaging and queues > Message queue configuration
• Image Management (Glance) > Glance CLI Overview, Creation of custom images
• OpenStack Storage (Cinder) > Cinder CLI Overview, Managing volumes

Lab 2:

• Create and manage users, roles, tenants, quotas ◦ Create and manage images 
• Create and manage volume
• Check messaging 

3. Compute Node

• Linux virtualization basics > Hypervisors, KVM,Linux bridges
• VM Placement
• VM Provisioning in-depth
• Instance Management > Nova CLI overview, Boot/Terminate instance, Attach volume to instance

Lab 3:

• Configure flat networking
• Create and manage vm instances
• Configure VM metadata 

 Lab 4:

• Create routers, networks, subnets
• Associate floating IPs
• Throubleshoot Neutron networking

5. Ceilometer

• Ceilometer background and usecases
• Ceilometer architecture
• Ceilometer meters and pipelines
• Ceilometer deployment 

Lab 5:

• Working with ceilometer

6. Heat

• Heat overview
• Architecture > AWS CloudFormation template format, Heat Services: heat-api, heat-cfn-api, heat-engine
• Configuring Heat > Configuring images for use with Heat, Creating a stack

Lab 6:

• Creating a Stack

7. OpenStack Object Store (SWIFT)

• Swift overview
• Swift Architecture > Accounts, containers, objects, rings; Nodes types : auth, proxy, storage; Partitions, zones, replication 
• Using Swift > Accounts, Creating and managing objects, Object server management, Container server management, Account server management, Proxy server management, Ring management, Large objects 

Appendix: OpenStack Installation