CL150: Fundamentals of OpenStack Administration

Training: Cloud - Virtualization - Backup & Recovery - Linux/Unix

Participants receive a practical introduction to the structure and functionality of OpenStack. The course covers core services such as Keystone, Glance, Nova, Cinder, and Neutron, as well as fundamentals of cloud architectures. It addresses cloud automation, containers, security, monitoring, and metering. Practical exercises with SolidFire storage complete the training.

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Start: 2026-02-02 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-02-06 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.790,00 € plus VAT.

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Agenda:

  • Basics - What is a cloud?

  • Openstack - architecture and functionality

  • Keystone – Management of domains, projects, roles, and users

  • Glance – Management of virtual machine images

  • Nova – Management of instances, flavors, key pairs, and availability zones

  • Cinder – Management and provisioning of (encrypted) block storage

  • Solidfire – Connection to Cinder as storage backend

  • Ceph – Object storage for OpenStack, connection to Cinder and Glance

  • Neutron – Management of networks, load balancers, routers...

  • Automated Openstack deployment with Kolla

  • Openstack on Docker containers

  • High availability for Openstack components

  • Security – basics, namespaces, private networks, security groups

  • Heat – cloud automation

  • Monitoring and metering – Ceilometer, aodh, Grafana

Objectives:

The adoption of OpenStack is increasing rapidly, and with it the demand for administrators for this cloud platform. This training provides all the necessary basics for creating and managing private and public clouds with OpenStack. The course also offers excellent preparation for the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam.

This training CL150 OpenStack Administration Fundamentals is targeted at system administrators who are primarily responsible for managing OpenStack clouds. Administrators and developers responsible for deploying applications on OpenStack will also benefit greatly from the course.

Target audience:

The course CL150 OpenStack Administration Fundamentals is targeted at:

  • Administrators
  • System Architects
  • Cloud Architects

Prerequisites:

To be able to follow the learning pace and course content of the training CL150 OpenStack Administration Fundamentals, the following prerequisites are required:

  • Linux administration
  • Concepts and administration of network, storage and virtual systems
  • Basic knowledge of the Linux command line

Description:

OpenStack was originally conceived as an open-source cloud operating system by Rackspace and NASA! Python is used as the programming language for the development of OpenStack as free software. From small companies to large organizations, the software is designed to enable cloud services to be created and offered using standardized hardware. OpenStack is now supported by various companies, licensed under the Apache License, aand made available for everything from free cloud computing to cloud operating systems. Python is used as the programming language for OpenStack developments.

In the course CL150 OpenStack Administration Fundamentals you will learn the architecture and functionality of OpenStack, various management options such as Keystone, Glance, Nova, Cinder, Neutron and more - We will also answer the question: "What is a cloud?" and give you an insight into topics such as cloud automation, Docker containers, security, monitoring, and metering.

SolidFire is used as storage.
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Price:

2.790,00 € plus VAT.

(including lunch & drinks)

The course fee includes registration for the COA exam (Certified OpenStack Administrator).

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