Cloud Fundamentals

This is an intermediate course, intended to introduce IT and Networking professionals to Cloud, focusing on understanding the main architectural changes in a hyper-scalable data center, why OpenStack has positioned itself as the de facto standard for cloud computing and learning about the different services and projects included in a typical OpenStack deployment.

Level of the course

Prerequisites

WS-INTR1 course
Experience in the areas of marketing, design, deployment or operation of telecommunications services.
Basic concepts of Data Center and Cloud/Virtualization

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Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud

Service delivery models: IaaS, SaaS and PaaS
Deployment and business models
Cloud trends with open technologies

Module 2: Diving into Cloud Computing

Advanced concepts of virtualization
Architectures of Cloud Networks
Security in Cloud Environments
Software Defined Data Centers
Laboratory:
KVM Installation
Creation and management of virtual machines

Module 3: Containers

Advanced concepts of virtualization
Containers and virtual machines
Container Network Concepts
Container Orchestration
Laboratory:
Docker Installation
Docker container Creation and Management

Module 4: Storage

Fundamentals of Storage
Software Defined Storage
Laboratory:
Experimenting with Volumes
Experimenting with CEPH
Module 5: Fundamentals of OpenStack
The role of OpenStack as an infrastructure manager
Fundamentals of OpenStack
OpenStack deployment
Laboratory:
OpenStack Horizon (Control Panel)
Managing computing instances
Configuring networks and security in OpenStack

COURSE FORMAT

2 days of duration
Onsite Instructor
Digital content (copy for each assistant)
60% theory, 40% laboratory

OBJECTIVES

Understand the models of Cloud service delivery (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS), based on hyper-scalable and open Cloud technologies.
Differentiate virtualization from Cloud computing, as well as the most used hypervisors.
Introduce the concept of Containers, as an alternative to traditional virtualization.
Get to know new cloud storage technologies.
Get to know the fundamentals of OpenStack.

Audience

Pre Sales Engineers
Planning Engineers
Project Engineers
Network/Cloud/IT Engineer
Operations Engineers
Consultants and Researchers

Cloud Fundamentals

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Prerequisites

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