The Red Hat OpenStack Administration III (CL310) course provides extensive hands-on training for experienced system administrators in how to use the distributed storage features of Red Hat^® Ceph Storage and the networking capabilities of OpenStack^® Neutron. Students will set up a Ceph environment and its configuration as a back end for OpenStack, and configure and use the advanced features of OpenStack Neutron.

This course includes Red Hat Certified Engineer in Red Hat Openstack exam (EX310).

Introduction to Red Hat Ceph Storage

Introduce Red Hat Ceph Storage architecture, components, and attributes.

Describe Red Hat Ceph Storage components and features

Describe the components and features of Red Hat Ceph Storage.

Deploy and access Red Hat Ceph Storage

Create snapshots and clones for Red Hat Ceph Storage.

Create snapshots and clones

Manage snapshots and clones of a Ceph Block Device (RBD).

Ceph with the Glance Image service

Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Glance Image service to store OpenStack images in Ceph.

Ceph with the Cinder Block Storage service

Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Cinder Block Storage service to provide OpenStack volumes in Ceph.

Ceph with the Nova compute service

Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Nova compute service to store instance data in Ceph.

Introduce networking fundamentals

Review networking concepts and deploy OpenStack with a separate Neutron networking node.

Network interfaces

Manage network interfaces manually (using the ip command) and persistently.

Virtual bridging

Install and manage virtual network bridges.

Virtual network devices

Create and deploy virtual network devices.

Network namespaces

Manage and implement networks inside a network namespace.

Neutron services

Verify and manage the Neutron services.

Provisioning tenant networks

Provision tenant networks using VXLAN tunnels, GRE tunnels, and VLANs.

Implementing load-balancer-as-a-service (LBaaS)

Implement LbaaS.

Neutron networking services

Diagnose and troubleshoot issues with the Neutron networking service.

Comprehensive Review

Review tasks from the Red Hat OpenStack III course.