Certified OpenStack Administrator

The Certified OpenStack Administrator or COA is a practical based exam that you can sit through the Linux Foundation and OpenStack.org. The exam will test you on the fundamentals skills needed to run an OpenStack cloud and the guide from the Urban Penguin will step you through the objectives laid out for the exam. OpenStack heralds from the stable of the OpenStack Foundation and forms the services that make up your public or private cloud. A virtualization platform that can be used for internal or external clients to be able to provision their own virtual machine instances. In a private cloud this may make up an environment for you DevOps to test updates and configuration before deployment to live systems. In a public cloud instances can be provisioned by paying customers such as we see provisioned by many cloud providers. Working though the course or reading the guide you are gradually going to make you a little more acquainted with OpenStack. We will do this by means of installing OpenStack using the DevStack installer on Ubuntu 16.04. With the installation up and running we will take you through the core services that make up OpenStack. These include Keystone as the identity service, Nova as the compute engine and Neutron as the networking service. Combine these services with the Cinder Volume service and Glance Image Service. We have ourselves a good system. Adding HEAT and Swift makes it great.

To gain your copy and be on your way to becoming a Certified OpenStack Administrator you can download it it from : theurbanpenguin. The cost for the guide is just £2.99 and includes over 60 letter size pages of pure certification gold. The list of contents follows:

Openstack COA 
Certification Objectives
OpenStack Installers
Lab Hardware Requirements
COA Exam
Taking the Exam
Preparing to Install OpenStack 
Creating the Answer File
Installing DevStack
Exercise 1 – Install Devstack 1
Hello Openstack 
Meet Horizon – The Web Interface
OpenStack CLI Client
Launch an Instance from the CLI
Exercise 2 – Getting to know OpenStack
Keystone 
OpenStack Identities
Keystone RC Files
Service Catalog
Service Entries
Service Endpoints
Cleanup the Catalog
Understanding Identity Objects
Exercise 3 – Working with Keystone
Glance 
OpenStack Images
Cloud Image Files Types
SSH Keypairs
Launching Instances with SSH Keys
Download Cloud Images
Creating Images
Launching Ubuntu Images
Sharing Images
Custom Images
Exercise 4 – Working with Images
Cinder 
OpenStack Volumes
Cinder Services
Storage Back-ends
Configuring New Back-ends
Volume Management
Creating Volumes from Images
Volume Snapshots
Volume Quotas
Exercise 5 – Working with Volumes
Swift
OpenStack Object Store
Swift Architecture
Installing the OpenStack Client
Using the Swift Object Store
Exercise 6 – Using Swift
Nova Compute
Nova Services
Nova Flavors
User-Data Scripts
Launching Customized Nova Instances
Managing Nova Instances
Exercise 7 – Custom Instances
Heat
Template 1 – Creating a Security Group
Templates Explained
Template 2 – Creating an Instance
Template 3 – Floating IP
Template 4 – Scaling Up
Template 5 – Using Parameters
Template 6 – Producing Output
Debug Templates
Exercise 8 – Using HEAT
Neutron
A Good Answer File
Network Name Spaces
Listing Network Components
Listing Network Agents
Deconstructing the Network
Networking Components Explained
Recreating the Network
Exercise 9 – Neutron
Troubleshoot
Logging
Variables