Red Hat Openstack Administration III (CL310)
Overview
The Red Hat OpenStack Administration III (CL310) course provides extensive hands-on training for experienced system administrators in how to use the distributed storage features of Red Hat® Ceph Storage and the networking capabilities of OpenStack® Neutron. Students will set up a Ceph environment and its configuration as a back end for OpenStack, and configure and use the advanced features of OpenStack Neutron.
Who Should Take This Course
Audience
This class is for experienced Linux® system administrators responsible for managing OpenStack environments who want to learn to configure scalable and distributed storage as a storage back end for OpenStack and learn the advanced features offered by OpenStack Neutron.
Prerequisites
Students should have the following:
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience.
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack certification or equivalent experience.
- Red Hat OpenStack Administration (CL210).
Why You Should Take This Course
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- Deploy, manage, and configure storage and OpenStack
Course Outline
Red Hat Openstack Administration III (CL310)
Introduction to Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Introduce Red Hat Ceph Storage architecture, components, and attributes.
Describe Red Hat Ceph Storage components and features
- Describe the components and features of Red Hat Ceph Storage.
Deploy and access Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Create snapshots and clones for Red Hat Ceph Storage.
Create snapshots and clones
- Manage snapshots and clones of a Ceph Block Device (RBD).
Ceph with the Glance Image service
- Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Glance Image service to store OpenStack images in Ceph.
Ceph with the Cinder Block Storage service
- Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Cinder Block Storage service to provide OpenStack volumes in Ceph.
Ceph with the Nova compute service
- Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Nova compute service to store instance data in Ceph.
Introduce networking fundamentals
- Review networking concepts and deploy OpenStack with a separate Neutron networking node.
Network interfaces
- Manage network interfaces manually (using the ip command) and persistently.
Virtual bridging
- Install and manage virtual network bridges.
Virtual network devices
- Create and deploy virtual network devices.
Network namespaces
- Manage and implement networks inside a network namespace.
Neutron services
- Verify and manage the Neutron services.
Provisioning tenant networks
- Provision tenant networks using VXLAN tunnels, GRE tunnels, and VLANs.
Implementing load-balancer-as-a-service (LBaaS)
- Implement LbaaS.
Neutron networking services
- Diagnose and troubleshoot issues with the Neutron networking service.
Comprehensive Review
- Review tasks from the Red Hat OpenStack III course.