OpenStack Course : Setup

Day 1

What is Cloud Computing?

• Private Cloud/Public Cloud
• Functionalities
• Glossary

OpenStack

• Project background
• Creation
• Overall architecture and components

Managing Identities: Keystone

• Keystone concepts
• About users, projects and roles
• Set­up and configuration

Managing images: Glance

• Glance concepts
• Managing image storage and related file systems
• Set­up and configuration

Day 2

Managing the network: Neutron

• Neutron concepts
• The  ML2/Open vSwitch plugin
• Set­up and configuration

Managing computation: Nova

• Nova and Nova­compute concepts
• Managing instances
• Managing multiple hypervisors (kvm, lxc)
• Set­up and configuration

Managing data volumes: Cinder

• Cinder concepts
• Backends
• Set­up and configuration

Storage infrastructure: Swift

• Swift concepts
• Managing storage
• Set­up and configuration

Graphical dashboard: Horizon

• Horizon concepts
• Set­up and configuration

Day 3

Managing metrics: Ceilometer

• Ceilometer concepts (Metrics, Multi­Publisher, Alarming)
• Types of collectors and agents
• Coupling with Heat for adaptation depending on resource usage
• Set­up and configuration

Heat

• Heat concepts
• HOT: the Heat template language
• Set­up and configuration

Tools to make optimum useof the cloud

• cloud­init: automatic instance configuration (data, files)
• Puppet: centralized configuration management