Unleash Your Potential with Red Hat OpenStack
Are you ready to take your career in cloud computing to the next level? Look no further than Red Hat OpenStack. In this comprehensive course, we dive deep into the world of cloud infrastructure configuration. Whether you’re a Linux system administrator, a cloud operator, or an infrastructure architect, this course is your gateway to mastering the art of maintaining private or hybrid clouds.
Elevate Your Cloud Expertise
By enrolling in Red Hat OpenStack Administration II: Infrastructure Configuration for Cloud Administrators, you’ll gain the skills to configure and manage an OpenStack installation with ease. You’ll learn the ins and outs of essential features and services crucial for enterprise-level private and hybrid clouds. This knowledge empowers you to tailor compute, storage, networking, deployment, and application support to meet the unique needs of your organization.
Why Choose This Course?
With a blend of interactive lectures, practical exercises, and real-world scenarios, this course equips you to navigate and manage the OpenStack environment with confidence. From controlling the cloud infrastructure to troubleshooting operations, you’ll become a cloud virtuoso. This training isn’t just about learning; it’s about career advancement. So, embark on this journey and become a sought-after expert in Red Hat OpenStack. Your future in the cloud awaits!
Course Details
Course Code: CL210; Course Duration: 4 days; Instructor-led
Audience
This course is intended for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, cloud operators, and infrastructure architects interested in, or responsible for, maintaining a private or hybrid cloud.
Prerequisites
- Be a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or demonstrate equivalent experience by passing the online skills assessment
- Attend Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Cloud Operators (CL110), or demonstrate equivalent experience
Methodology
This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, discussion and practical exercise.
Course Objectives
As a result of attending this course, you will know how to configure and manage an OpenStack installation featuring all of the common, core features and services used by enterprise private/hybrid cloud customers. You will also be able to choose and customize compute, storage, networking, deployment, and application support resources and services tailored to your enterprise needs.
Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:
- Navigate and manage the control plane on the undercloud and the overcloud.
- Work with containerized overcloud infrastructure services.
- Manage necessary authentication, authorization, and security administration.
- Navigate and describe all network layers in an IaaS and all aspects of SDN design and management.
- Manage compute node and storage resource, including hyperconvergence.
- Troubleshoot typical OpenStack operations.
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Outlines
Module 1: Navigate the Red Hat OpenStack Platform architecture
Describe the classroom environment, support systems, functions of the undercloud components, and more.
Module 2: Describe the OpenStack control plane

Identify the shared services running on a controller node and describe service endpoint configuration and security.
Module 3: Integrate identity management
Describe the installation and architecture of a Red Hat Identity Management back end for the OpenStack identity service.
Module 4: Perform image operations
Build an image using diskimage-builder and customize launched instances during deployment using cloud-init.
Module 5: Manage storage
Explain persistent storage options for use in OpenStack, focusing on the expanding capabilities of the default Red Hat® Ceph Storage.
Module 6: Manage OpenStack networking
Explain the different network types available to the OpenStack networking service and improve network performance with Open Virtual Network.
Module 7: Manage compute resources

Perform common compute node administration tasks, including live migration, evacuation, and enabling and disabling compute nodes.
Module 8: Automate cloud applications
Explain the orchestration architecture required to deploy application stacks and write templates using the Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) language.
Module 9: Troubleshoot OpenStack operations

Discuss recommended diagnostic and troubleshooting tools and techniques.
Module 10: Comprehensive review
Build a custom image and launch an instance using the custom image.
