OpenStack Training Syllabus

Introduction

• Introduction to Linux
• Linux admin commands
• Introduction to Cloud
• Comparison with Amazon AWS and RackSpace cloud
• Other Cloud frameworks
• Introduction to OpenStack and its components
• Virtualization techniques

Compute (Nova)

• What is nova
• Supported hypervisors
• Xen, LXC, KVM, Qemu, VMWare
• Architecture & features
• Control Flow
• Building a Platform as a Service using Docker/LXC?

OpenStack image service (Glance)

• What is Glance
• Supported image formats
• Creating, uploading and using an image
• Architecture & features
• Control flow

Software defined storage (Cinder)

• • What is Cinder

Block Storage properties

Architecture & features

Control flow

Software defined storage (Swift)

• What is Swift
• Object storage properties
• Object security, permissions and metadata
• Architecture & components
• Features
• Control flow
• Building a Content Delivery Network

Software defined networking (Neutron)

• What is Neutron
• Architecture & features
• Control flow
• Creating VPN
• Open vSwitch

Cloud Security

• Cloud security groups
• Instance access (SSH Keys)
• Virtual private clouds
• DMZs

Identity & Access Management (Keystone)

• RBAC
• Users, Roles, Groups, Domains, Projects

OpenStack dashboard (Horizon)

• What is Horizon
• Architecture & features
• Control flow

Additional components of an OpenStack system

• Message serverRabbitMQ and Qpid
• Databases Mysql and sqlite