Red Hat OpenStack Platform 101

Description

During this workshop, you get your first taste of using and operating a Red Hat OpenStack Platform cloud. After the workshop, you will have hands on experience working with software defined networking, software defined storage, managing security groups and using heat to define application stacks.

Who should attend

• System Administrators
• Architects
• Technical leads
• Operations Engineers

What you will learn

• Working in the OpenStack Dashboard and CLI
• Managing Neutron Networks and Floating IPs
• Managing Security Groups, Images and Instances
• Using Heat for Orchestration
• Using Software defined block and object Storage

Introduction

This workshop on Red Hat OpenStack Platform is designed as an introduction for those who are intending to implement a cloud computing environment using OpenStack. Students will learn a small taste of how to operate Red Hat OpenStack Platform. In this course you will use both the OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) and OpenStack command-line interface. Labs

Workshop Login Info

Each student will be assigned a number at the beginning of the workshop. This number will be used throughout the labs.

At the bottom of each lab page is a form to set your student number. Please make sure you set this to the number you were assigned by the instructor.

Horizon

Username: student1
Password: Instructor will give out at beginning

Environment Links

Your instructor will provide the following:

• URL for OpenStack Dashboard
• Username and Password
• Information to access a system via SSH for the CLI lab

Labs

• Introduction to Red Hat OpenStack Platform

• Lab 1 - Login to Horizon

• Lab 2 - Managing Neutron Networks

• Lab 3 - Managing Floating IP Addresses

• Lab 4 - Managing Security Groups

• Lab 5 - Managing Images

• Lab 6 - Managing Instances

• Lab 7 - Using the OpenStack CLI(s)

• Lab 8 - Using Heat to Describe Stacks

• Lab 9 - Managing Block and Object Storage

• Fin.

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Workshop Details

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