Goal: Give a brief overview on the concepts of virtualization and how it's used on the cloud. Relate the virtualization and the cloud. Also learn about the cloud and OpenStack along with its ecology and components.

Objectives: Upon completing this module, you should be able to: Learn concepts of virtualization and how it's used on the cloud, Justify the relationship between virtualization and the cloud, Have a stronghold on cloud and OpenStack along with its ecology and components, Having hands on installing VM and OpenStack.

Topics: Understanding the virtualization concept, Relation between Virtualization and Cloud, Introduction to cloud and cloud concepts, Cloud and OpenStack, Deep Dive into OpenStack, OpenStack architecture and its service components.

Practical's Covered: Preparing environment for lab sessions, Installing Oracle VM Virtual Box, Installing Ubuntu, Creating 3 nodes- controller, compute and network, Configuring network interfaces, Installing OpenStack.

Goal: Give a brief overview on the authentication, authorization, identity system and Image service of OpenStack.

Objectives: At the end of this module, you should be able to: Conceptualize the authentication and identity system for the Keystone service, Install and implement keystone, Understand the OpenStack Image service and leverage it for image uploads and downloads.

Topics: The following topics will be covered in this module: 

Keystone

·         Introducing OpenStack identity management

·         Identity concepts

·         Keystone - User Interaction

·         Role Mapping with keystone

·         End points interaction via keystone

Glance

·         Glance Overview

·         Glance components

·         OpenStack Glance architecture

·         Glance formats

·         Glance status flow

·         Image and Instances

Practical's Covered: The following concepts will be covered practically in this module: 

Keystone

·         Install and configure Keystone

·         Create a domain, projects, users and roles

·         Verify operation

Glance

·         Create OpenStack client environment scripts

·         Install and configure Glance

·         Verify operation

Goal: Learn to implement the OpenStack compute service and block storage service. Utilize virtualization to successfully run Nova and Cinder.

Objectives: At the end of this module, you should be able to: Understand and Implement the OpenStack compute service, Utilize virtualization to successfully implement and run Nova, Understand and Implement the OpenStack block service.

Topics: The following topics will be covered as part of this module: 

Nova

·         Introducing OpenStack compute services

·         Nova Components

·         Nova Packet Flow

·         KVM based Architecture

Cinder

·         Understanding Cinder (Block services)

·         Cinder services

·         Cinder Architecture

·         How cinder works

·         Manage volumes

Practicals Covered: The following topics will be covered practically in this module: 

Nova

·         Install and configure controller node

·         Install and configure compute node

·         Verify operation

Cinder

·         Install and configure controller node

·         Install and configure a storage node

·         Verify operations

Goal: Learn the concepts of Neutron and successfully implement it.

Objectives: At the end of this module, you should be able to: Conceptualize Neutron, Successfully implement Neutron.

Topics: Introduction to OpenStack networking, Neutron – Network Configuration, Neutron Components & Agents, Neutron Plugins, ML2, ML3 Plugins, Fixed and Floating IPs, Network Services – LBaaS, FwaaS, VPNaaS.

Practical's Covered: Install and configure controller node, Install and configure compute node, Install and configure network node, Verify operations.

Goal: Learn about Swift installation and its implementations. And learn to integrate it with Glance to use as an image store.

Objectives: At the end of this module, you should be able to: Install Swift, Learn it’s implementations, Integrate it with Glance to use as an image store.

Topics: Introducing Object Storage, Features and Benefits, Object Storage Characteristics, Swift Components, Swift Architecture, Cluster Architecture, Ring Builder, Swift Replications, Cinder Snapshots and Backups.

Practical's Covered: Installing and configuring controller node, Install and configure the storage node, Create and distribute initial rings, Finalize installation, Verify operations.

Goal: Learn to Install GUI for OpenStack.

Objectives: At the end of this module, you should be able to: Install and configure GUI for OpenStack.

Topics: Introducing OpenStack Dashboard, Horizon Design, Horizon Internals, Horizon – Key values.

Practical's Covered: Install and Configure the Dashboard, Verify Operations, Upload and manage Image, Launch and manage Instance.