• Red Hat OpenStack Administration I (CL110) course or equivalent
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent knowledge and experience

Course content summary

• Build and customize an image
• Write a Heat template
• Diagnose and troubleshoot OpenStack issues holistically
• Manage Ceph storage in an OpenStack environment
• Scale compute nodes
• Migrate instances
• Scale stacks automatically

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to troubleshoot and manage the life cycle of a private cloud. Control of the life cycle is important for organizations seeking to manage costs according to their own schedule, and having advanced administrators reduces downtime.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to manage the life cycle of Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Understand the concepts of undercloud, overcloud, and Heat templates.
• Manage internal Red Hat OpenStack Platform communication.
• Build custom disk images.
• Manage Ceph and Swift.
• Troubleshoot an SDN infrastructure.
• Manage resilient compute resources.
• Troubleshoot general Red Hat OpenStack Platform issues.
• Monitor cloud metrics.
• Deploy Heat stacks.

Course introduction
Introduce and review the course.

Manage an enterprise OpenStack deployment
Manage the undercloud, the overcloud, and related services.

Manage internal OpenStack communication
Administer the Keystone identity service and the advanced message queueing protocol (AMQP) messaging service.

Build and customize images
Build and customize images.

Manage storage
Manage Ceph and Swift storage for OpenStack.

Manage resilient compute resources
Add compute nodes, manage shared storage, and perform live instance migration.

Manage and troubleshoot
Manage and troubleshoot virtual network infrastructure.

Manage resilient compute resources
Add compute nodes, manage shared storage, and perform live instance migration.

Troubleshoot OpenStack issues
Diagnose and troubleshoot OpenStack issues and services.

Monitor cloud metrics for autoscaling
Monitor and analyze cloud metrics for use in orchestration autoscaling.

Orchestrate deployments
Deploy Heat stacks that automatically scale.