Red Hat Openstack Administration II (CL210)
Overview
Build advanced skills for performing Red Hat OpenStack Platform day 2 operations and management of hybrid cloud infrastructure.
This course is designed for cloud operators, service administrators, and automation engineers who operate and manage a full-featured hybrid and private cloud-computing environment using Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Students will learn how to manage, monitor, troubleshoot, and scale a Red Hat OpenStack Platform infrastructure. The course focuses on using the OpenStack Client command-line user interface to configure metrics, policies, and architecture in order to support daily enterprise cloud applications and operations.
This course is based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.2.
Who Should Take This Course
Audience
This course is intended for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, cloud operators, and infrastructure architects interested in, or responsible for, maintaining a private or hybrid cloud.
Prerequisites
- Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or demonstrate equivalent experience by passing Red Hat’s online skills assessment
- Attend Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Cloud Operators (CL110), or demonstrate equivalent experience
Why You Should Take This Course
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- Manage overcloud service containerization technology.
- Provide metrics for performance tuning and governance.
- Monitor and troubleshoot Open Virtual Networking (OVN) network flow.
- Configure Identity service using an external Red Hat IdM store.
- Manage the core control plane, including Pacemaker.
- Customize images, with techniques for multiple use cases.
- Manage block and object storage backends.
- Manage compute nodes, including tuning and hyperconverged.
- Troubleshoot Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
Course Outline
Red Hat Openstack Administration II (CL210)
Navigate the Red Hat OpenStack Platform architecture
Describe the undercloud and overcloud architecture and service components.
Operate the control plane
Describe and manage the critical core services of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform control plane.
Manage infrastructure security
Protect the Red Hat OpenStack Platform infrastructure by securing service component files and endpoints.
Manage user security
Configure secure user privileges using domain-based identity management, scoped roles, and project organization.
Manage application deployment resources
Create and manage the common, shared deployment resources including custom images, flavors, and metadata services.
Manage storage
Describe and manage storage architecture and components, with an emphasis on Red Hat Ceph Storage back ends.
Manage networking
Create, manage, and troubleshoot data center and virtual network infrastructure.
Manage compute node operations
Describe the architecture and management processes for normal and hyperconverged compute nodes. Perform common operational tasks for compute nodes to support workload uptime and scaling.
Monitor Red Hat OpenStack Platform operations
Describe the monitoring framework and architecture to gather, store, and use operational metrics.
Automate cloud applications
Implement and deploy complex and scalable applications using automation technologies.
Troubleshoot operations
Describe and practice the tools and methods for diagnosing and troubleshooting issues encountered during deployment and management operations.
Comprehensive review
Review tasks from Red Hat OpenStack Platform Administration II: Day 2 Operations for Cloud Operators.