OST-101 Introduction to Openstack private clouds (extended)

Course Description: This course covers (Infrastructure As A Service) solution used for creating a private cloud. It starts with a PAAS - Platform As A Service, SAAS – Software As A Service) continuing with the origin and main features of Openstack, its architecture and core building blocs. An important part of the training is the demonstration of the basic features and operation of an Openstack system. Finally it shortly presents the most popular distributions like the fundamentals of the Openstack IAAS general cloud primer and the main cloud types ( IAAS - Infrastructure As A Service, the Ubuntu Linux based Community Edition, Red Hat Openstack and Mirantis Openstack as well as complete private cloud solutions of important IT vendors like Cisco, HP, IBM and Oracle based on Openstack.

Duration: 1 day

Target audience: - IT managers - IT team leaders - IT project managers - Architects - System Administrators - Developers - Demonstration of the basic features and operation of an Openstack private cloud

Detailed Course Outline •General cloud primer

•Origin and history of Openstack

•Main features of Openstack

•Openstack architechture

•Core building blocks

• Controller node

• Nova compute node

• Neutron network node

• Ceilometer for metering resource usage

• Heat for cloud orchestration

•Swift Object Store

•Openstack distributions and complete private cloud solutions based on Openstack