OpenStack Deployment and Operations

About This Course

The OpenStack Deployment and Operations course is our self-paced basic course for fundamental OpenStack knowledge. It is the base for all our other OpenStack training modules and will enable you to deeply understand the basic ideas behind OpenStack and the general structure of the platform.

This course has a total of 38 units, out of which 16 are interactive lab exercises. Lab exercises vary from about 30 to 90 minutes in length. Overall, it is possible to complete the entire course in a matter of 2-3 days in one go, but we recommend to spread out your lessons: for best results, plan to do about 2-3 units, including one lab, every day or every other day. If you follow that recommendation, you will complete the course in about 2-4 weeks — but if a different schedule suits you better, go with what works best for you!

Important notice

We provide all our courses as monthly course runs to ensure that the course content and labs are continually updated, and constantly quality checked. When you purchase a course seat, you will be automatically invited to the current course run, i.e., the June course run, July course run, etc., regardless of when you make your purchase.

Much like a printed book, the course content will remain available in your Cleura Cloud Academy account, but your access to labs expires on the 7:th of the following month, i.e. July 7 for the June course run, August 7 for the July course run, etc.

Please plan your seat purchase to ensure that you have enough time to complete the course and labs before access to the labs expires.

Objectives

In this course, you will build your own OpenStack cluster, and learn how to operate it according to current industry best practices.

At the end of the course you will

• Have a deep understanding of the fundamental ideas of cloud computing;
• Know how OpenStack’s various components work and interact together;
• Understand OpenStack’s project structure and history;
• Know how to operate, manage, and run a basic OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.

You will initially deploy an OpenStack cluster using the OpenStack Train release, and then do a complete rolling upgrade to OpenStack Ussuri.

Course Staff

Florian Haas

Drawing from a decade of experience in open source technology, Florian is among the most renowned OpenStack experts in the world. He has worked with customers of all sizes and markets, and is a frequent conference speaker.

Namrata Sitlani

Namrata is a Junior Software Developer and Courseware Designer at Cleura. She has been actively contributing to OpenStack since 2016 and is a Core Reviewer of OpenStack Zun. She is an active speaker at OpenStack meetups and mentor for events which spread awareness and encourage students to contribute to OpenStack community.

Elena Lindqvist

Elena spent over a decade working with large Telecom operators, mainly based in the US and Asia, helping them to transition to virtualization and cloud. She contributed to supporting, testing and designing telco clouds based on open source platforms like OpenStack.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to download or install anything?

No, all course material will be delivered on demand to your device via a web browser or edX app. Labs will be conducted online as well.

What web browser should I use?

The Open edX platform works best with current versions of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, or with Internet Explorer version 9 and above.