Openstack Overview

• Overview of project history and releases
• Core projects overview (Nova, Glance, Keystone, Swift, Quantum,Cinder)
• Nova architecture overview
• VM provisioning walkthrough
• OpenStack Networking Overview
• KVM networking with Linux bridges
• Single‐host vs multi‐host networking
• The role of Network Manager
• Different Network Manager types
• Floating IPs
• Traffic Flow
• Openstack Storage Overview
• Project overview
• Usage and use cases
• The Ring, RingBuilder, partitioning
• Account, container and object servers
• Replication
• Security/ACLs
• Deployment and Operations
• Introduction to Chef and automated installation of Openstack using Chef
• Basics of Chefs – Cookbooks, Roles, Recipes, Nodes
• Review of the Openstack cookbooks – Management server, Keystone,Glance,

Quantum (Neutron), Nova, Cinder, Horizon

• Automated Installation of Openstack
• Review example installation architectures
• Review Service Architecture
• Review of the Openstack cookbooks – Management server, Keystone, Glance,

Quantum (Neutron), Nova, Cinder, Horizon

• Use the above Openstack cookbooks to deploy Openstack from scratch
• OpenStack HA (High Availabiliity) Overview
• Setup some of the components in HA mode with Load Balancer using Chef

Cookbooks