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OpenStack Admin

Build and manage your own private cloud infrastructure. Master Nova, Neutron, Cinder, and Keystone administration to deploy scalable on-premise clouds.

OpenStack remains the standard for building private and hybrid clouds. This course teaches you to architect and administer an OpenStack environment from the ground up. You will master the core services: Nova for compute, Neutron for networking, Cinder for block storage, and Keystone for identity. Learn to manage tenants, quotas, and images while troubleshooting complex distributed system issues. Essential for telecom engineers and enterprises that need cloud capabilities within their own data centers.

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Complete Course Syllabus

  • 1
    Architecture Overview
    Understanding the modular design of OpenStack services.
  • 2
    Identity & Keystone
    Managing users, tenants, roles, and service catalogs.
  • 3
    Compute with Nova
    Hypervisors, instances, and scheduling algorithms.
  • 4
    Networking (Neutron)
    Virtual networks, subnets, routers, and security groups.
  • 5
    Storage Services
    Block storage (Cinder) vs Object storage (Swift).

Estimated completion time: 21 lessons • Self-paced learning • Lifetime access

Career Outlook

Estimated Salary
$120k - $160k

Career Paths

OpenStack Engineer $125k-$165k
Private Cloud Architect $140k-$190k
Cloud Infrastructure Eng $120k-$160k

What You Will Learn

Deploy and configure core OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder)
Manage multi-tenant environments with Keystone identity services
Troubleshoot distributed networking and storage issues effectively
Orchestrate complex workloads using Heat templates
Maintain high availability and disaster recovery strategies

Skills You Will Gain

OpenStack Administration Linux Virtualization Software Defined Networking Private Cloud Architecture Troubleshooting

Who Is This For

SysAdmins
Network Engineers
Telco Operators

Prerequisites

Linux Administration
Virtualization Basics

OpenStack Admin FAQs

Still relevant?

Yes, critical for Telecom (5G) and regulated industries.

Hard to install?

Yes, but we use tools like Packstack/Ansible to help.

Hardware needed?

We use nested virtualization for lab practice.

Vs Public Cloud?

OpenStack is for when you ARE the cloud provider.

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Tech Stack & Tools

OpenStack
KVM/QEMU
RabbitMQ
MariaDB
Ansible

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