This Advanced OpenStack Administration training course gives internals of various vendor specific OpenStack distributions and their installations and setups. It also teaches advanced keystone topics, troubleshooting and debugging neutron related issues and various network scale out considerations. It covers heat topics ranging from heat template development to advanced heat concepts. It also delves into high availability and also the evolution of OpenStack from prior releases up to Ocata. It also teaches OpenStack restful API’s, client libraries, CLI and how to write applications using the API’s. We also teach how to contribute to OpenStack releases and how to maintain CI’s and internals of Tempest.
After taking the course, the candidate should be able to administer and manage their OpenStack deployments more efficiently, will be able to debug and root cause issues with the deployment, keystone, networking and high availability. They should be able to write applications using OpenStack API’s. They should be able to deploy services using Heat templates and manage their deployments. Also, they should be able to contribute to OpenStack releases and maintain their contributed code by running CI (continuous integration tests).