Red Hat OpenStack Administration II: Infrastructure Configuration for Cloud Administrators

OVERVIEW
Building Strategic Influence in Matrix Organizations

This course focuses on managing and using the OpenStack client command-line interface and the director and dashboard graphical web user interfaces to securely manage server instances, compute and storage resources, and user identities. During the course, participants will learn how to choose and customize compute, storage, networking, deployment, and application support resources and services tailored to your enterprise needs. The course equips the participants with the skills and knowledge for navigating and managing the control plane on the undercloud and overcloud, and troubleshooting typical OpenStack operations.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why you shouldn't miss this course

By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.

01Gain familiarity with overcloud service containerization technology
02Learn about Open Virtual Networking (OVN) enhancement to OVS
03Use identity service v3 (keystone) with external Red Hat IdM store
04Manage the core control plane, including Pacemaker
05Customize images, with techniques for multiple use cases
06Manage block and object storage
07Manage compute nodes, including tuning and hyperconvergence
08Deploy multi-container stacks
09Troubleshoot OpenStack

PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience

CURRICULUM
Structured for
Strategic Application
  • Describe the classroom environment, support systems, functions of the undercloud components, and more
  • Identify the shared services running on a controller node and describe service endpoint configuration and security
  • Describe the installation and architecture of a Red Hat Identity Management back end for the OpenStack identity service
  • Build an image using diskimage-builder and customize launched instances during deployment using cloud-init
  • Explain persistent storage options for use in OpenStack, focusing on the expanding capabilities of the default Red Hat® Ceph Storage
  • Explain the different network types available to the OpenStack networking service
  • Improve network performance with Open Virtual Network
  • Perform common compute node administration tasks, including live migration, evacuation, and enabling and disabling compute nodes
  • Explain the orchestration architecture required to deploy application stacks and write templates using the Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) language
  • Discuss the recommended diagnostic and troubleshooting tools and techniques
  • Build a custom image and launch an instance using the custom image

RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first,
hands-on learning model

Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)

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WHY COGNIXIA
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