OpenStack Training — Private Cloud Infrastructure, Operations & Enterprise Administration

What Is OpenStack?

OpenStack is the leading open-source platform for building private and hybrid clouds — providing IaaS capabilities comparable to AWS, but running in your data center. OpenStack's modular architecture (Nova for compute, Neutron for networking, Cinder for block storage, Swift for object storage, Keystone for identity) lets organizations build cloud infrastructure on their own hardware. OpenStack powers private clouds at CERN, Walmart, Verizon, and telecom NFV infrastructures worldwide.

Current Relevance

OpenStack is mature, actively maintained private cloud infrastructure. While public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) dominates new workloads, OpenStack remains critical for: telecom NFV (5G core infrastructure), regulated industries requiring on-premises cloud, research institutions with massive compute needs, and organizations avoiding public cloud vendor lock-in. OpenStack skills are niche but highly valued — particularly in telecom and large-scale private cloud operations.

Who Should Attend

• Cloud infrastructure engineers operating OpenStack private clouds
• System administrators managing OpenStack deployments
• DevOps engineers integrating OpenStack with CI/CD and automation
• Telecom engineers working with NFV on OpenStack

Learning Outcomes

• Deploy and operate OpenStack core services — Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Horizon
• Configure OpenStack networking — provider networks, tenant networks, routers, floating IPs, security groups
• Manage block and object storage with Cinder and Swift/Ceph
• Automate OpenStack with Heat (orchestration) and Terraform
• Operate OpenStack at scale — high availability, monitoring, backup, upgrade planning
• Integrate OpenStack with Kubernetes (OpenShift, Magnum) for container orchestration

Course Modules

1. OpenStack Architecture — Services overview. Deployment models (Kolla-Ansible, OpenStack-Ansible). Project layout.
2. Keystone — Identity — Users, projects, roles, domains. Service catalog. Federation. LDAP integration.
3. Nova — Compute — Flavors, instances, hypervisors (KVM). Scheduling. Live migration. NUMA/CPU pinning.
4. Neutron — Networking — ML2 plugin. Provider and tenant networks. Routers. Floating IPs. Security groups. LBaaS.
5. Cinder & Swift — Storage — Block storage (Cinder). Object storage (Swift). Ceph integration. Volume types.
6. Glance — Images — Image management. Upload, snapshot. Multi-store backends.
7. Horizon — Dashboard — UI operations. Customization. CLI operations with openstackclient.
8. Automation & Orchestration — Heat templates. Terraform OpenStack provider. Ansible OpenStack modules.
9. Operations at Scale — High availability. Monitoring (Prometheus, Ceilometer). Backup. Upgrade planning.
10. Container Integration — Magnum (Kubernetes on OpenStack). OpenShift on OpenStack. Hybrid architecture.

Hands-on Labs (20 total)

Deploy OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible. Create projects, users, and networks. Launch and manage instances. Configure Cinder volumes and attach to instances. Write Heat templates for infrastructure orchestration. Automate with Terraform and Ansible.

Enterprise Use Cases

• Operating OpenStack for telecom NFV infrastructure across 10+ data centers
• Private cloud for research institution with 50,000+ cores across OpenStack and Ceph
• Hybrid architecture: OpenStack for on-premises workloads, AWS for burst capacity, Terraform for orchestration

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