1. Course Introduction
  • OpenStack Certification Programme & COA Exam Procedure
  • Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam Requirements
  • Course Overview & Plan
  • Lab 1: Set up the COA Prep Lab
2. Getting to know OpenStack
  • OpenStack Overview & History
  • OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service - Cloud User Perspective
  • High Level Overview of OpenStack Architecture
  • Architecting & Implementing OpenStack Deployment
3. Horizon Dashboard & OpenStackClient CLI
  • OpenStack Dashboard and Command Line Clients
  • Lab 2: Using Horizon
  • Lab 3: Using OpenStackClient
  • Dashboard & CLI Summary and Review
4. Keystone - Identity Management
  • Understanding Keystone
  • Lab 4: Using Keystone with Horizon Dashboard
  • Lab 5: Keystone on Command Line
  • OpenStack Identity Management Summary and Review
5. Glance - Image Management
  • Inside of Glance
  • Lab 6: Managing Images in Horizon Dashboard
  • Lab 7: Managing Images on Command Line
  • Image Management Summary and review
6. Nova - Compute Service
  • Compute Service Introduction
  • Virtual Server Instances - A Deep Dive
  • Lab 8: Nova in Horizon Dashboard
  • Lab 9: Nova on Command Line
  • Nova Summary and Review
  • Extra Lecture: Instance Scheduling - where will it run?
7. Cinder - Block Storage
  • Understanding Block Storage
  • Lab 10: Volume Management in Dashboard
  • Lab 11: Managing Volumes on Command Line
  • Cinder Summary & Review
8. Neutron - Networking
  • OpenStack Network Service
  • Virtual Network Resources
  • Lab 12: Network Management in Horizon
  • Lab 13: CLI of OpenStack Networking
  • Neutron Summary & Review
9. Swift - Object Storage
  • Understanding Object Storage Service
  • Lab 14: Swift & Horizon
  • Lab 15: Managing Object Storage in Command Line environment
  • Swift Summary & Review
10. Heat - Orchestration
  • Heat - OpenStack Orchestration Service
  • Lab 16: Dashboard Interface to Heat
  • Lab 17: Heat on Command Line
  • Heat Summary & Review
11. Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting Overview
  • Lab 18: OpenStack Troubleshooting
12. Pike COA Lab
  • Quick Introduction
  • VirtualBox Installation
  • Vagrant Installation
  • Basic Intro to Vagrant
  • Pike COA Lab Installation Scripts
  • Create and Configure Pike COA Lab VM
  • Install OpenStack Pike for COA Lab
  • Configure COA Lab