Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) Certification Prep
The Open Infrastructure Foundation offers the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam as the sole professional certification for OpenStack experts. This certification is intended for professionals with a minimum of six months of experience in managing OpenStack cloud environments.
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About this course
The OpenStack Administration Bootcamp is a 5-day course that introduces you to OpenStack and its components on day 1, followed by hands-on training in administering and operating OpenStack for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a private cloud on days 2-4. Completing OS250 gives you the skills needed to pass the COA exam.
All Mirantis OpenStack courses are taught using standard features that work with OpenStack, like Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for Block Storage, Open vSwitch (OVS) for L2 networking, or KVM/QEMU for the hypervisor, without any company-specific add-ons.
Recommended training for the certification exam preparation – OS250: OpenStack Administration Bootcamp (Ussuri)
Who should attend?
This course is targeted at students with the following:
- Skills:
- Basic understanding of cloud and virtualization technologies
- Basic hypervisor skills are beneficial, such as KVM or VMware, but not required
- Basic Linux skills
- Basic understanding of OpenStack
- Motivations: Learn the critical skills needed to operate and administer an OpenStack environment
- Roles: System/network administrators, Technical IT Professionals, Deployment engineers, Cloud administrators, & Cloud operations
Prerequisites
- Solid Linux command line skills
- OS100 or equivalent experience is beneficial, including:
- Familiarity with the OpenStack Dashboard UI & command line client
- Although not required, an understanding of hypervisors, virtualization, networking, and storage concepts is beneficial
Course Content
This course begins with:
- An introduction to OpenStack, including its architecture, history, the OpenStack Foundation, plus an overview of the most commonly used components with discussion of additional components for containers, bare metal, workflows, monitoring, cloud costing, and more.
As the course continues, the most commonly used OpenStack components are discussed in detail:
- Keystone (Identity service): Authenticating with Keystone, managing tokens, RBAC policies, & the purpose of the Service Catalog
- Glance (Image service): Creating & managing images, options to build an image, the purpose of cloud-init
- Neutron (Network service): Understand what networks OpenStack uses, such as, the management network. Neutron architecture, including plugins, namespaces, layer 2 protocols, layer 3 routing, Neutron security groups, and more.
- Nova (Compute service): Using Nova to deploy virtual machine (VM) instances & control where the instances are deployed. Deploying instances with SSH keys for better security. Understanding the supported hypervisors. Lastly, implementing resource quotas.
- Cinder (Block Storage/Volume service): Understand the use of volumes, snapshots, and backups. You also create and use a boot volume.
- Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.Heat (Orchestration service): Discusses Heat templates, their syntax, and MANY practical day-to-day examples of Heat templates, including examples of installing and configuring software on your instances at boot.
- Octavia (LBaaS): Use the CLI to create & manage a load balancer and load balancer resources
- Ceilometer/Aodh(Telemetry services): Discuss the role & architecture of each component. Review a sample application with load balancing and autoscaling
- Ceilometer / Aodh (Telemetry services): Discuss the role & architecture of each component. Review a sample application with load balancing and autoscaling
At this time, this course is available for private class and in-house training only. Please contact us for any inquiries.