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OpenStack and Kubernetes Training Course Overview

Description

This OpenStack/Kubernetes training course is to designed to help DevOps, admins and architects:

Build a general understanding of core OpenStack and Kubernetes concepts and architecture.
Understand the power of OpenStack for automating your servers, storage, and networking infrastructure and building an enterprise-ready private cloud.
Become familiar with day-to-day operation of an OpenStack environment using the UI, CLI, and REST APIs.
Understand the power of Kubernetes for managing your container environment

Requirements

Basic familiarity with Linux
Basic understanding of virtualization, storage, and networking concepts
Laptop with wireless access
SSH and SCP access enabled
Chrome web browser

Day One: OpenStack/Kubernetes 101

Key Concepts

OpenStack overview and architecture
Kubernetes overview and architecture
Core services and road map
The general OpenStack move toward containers
Future: Adding public cloud endpoints into OpenStack
Common use cases
Static-IT to DevOps
Visibility and policies
Reducing costs
Future-proof and openness

Deployment models

Model 1: On-premises distribution
Model 2: Hosted private cloud
Model 3: OpenStack as a Service

Lab

Review prerequisites
Exercise: Onboarding into a basic OpenStack deployment
- Linux/KVM
  - Create network bridges
  - Assign network pools to bridges
- Multiple regions
Exercise: Create and manage users, tenants, and quotas
Exercise: Create and manage images and instances
- Snapshot an instance to an image
Exercise: Create and manage host aggregates
Exercise: Create and manage flavors
- Tie a flavor to a host aggregate
Exercise: Introducing the CLI
- Keystone
- Glance
- Nova

Day Two: Storage and Networking

Part 1: Storage Deep Dive

Key Concepts

Exploration of various OpenStack storage options and their relative pros and cons
Advanced block storage
- Integrating storage back-ends
- Tiered storage and QoS
- Multiple storage endpoints
- Exercise: Creating and managing volume types
- Exercise: Exploring the Cinder CLI

Lab

Exercise: Integrate a storage back-end (LVM)
Exercise: Creating and managing volumes
- Attach and detach volumes from instances
Exercise: Create a VM using a bootable volume
Exercise: Creating and manage snapshots
- Create a volume from a snapshot
High Availability: Failure models and scalability

Part 2: Networking Deep Dive

Key Concepts

OpenStack network options (e.g. Nova networking vs Neutron) and their relative pros and cons
Neutron architecture and plugins
Advanced networking
- LBaaS
- FWaaS
- Integrating dedicated SDN solutions

Lab

Exercise: Using Neutron software defined networks (SDN)
- Create and manage providers, tenants, and external networks
- Create and manage routers and interfaces
- Create and manage floating IP
- Create and manage security groups
Exercise: Exploring the Neutron CLI

Day Three: Orchestration and Operations

Part 1: Orchestration and Metering

Key Concepts

Heat fundamentals and template format
Ceilometer fundamentals (meters, alarms, stats, pipelines)
Ceilometer extensibility (register your own events)

Lab

Exercise: Look at the UI for events and alarms
- Power down a hypervisor and watch the alarm go off.
Exercise: Deploy one server stack
Exercise: Deploy one server application and network
Exercise: Deploy a multi-node stack enabled with autoscaling
Exercise: Explore the Heat CLI
Exercise: Monitor auto-scaling using the Ceilometer CLI

Part 2: Common Infrastructure Operations

Key Concepts

Navigating Platform9 support
Failure events and recovery
Backup and restore
DR
SSO / LDAP integration

Lab

Exercise: Recover a VM when the hypervisor fails
Exercise: Recover a failed Glance node

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