Key Features

• Focuses on offering a transparent, concise approach so that you achieve the categorical abilities required to cross the qualified OpenStack Administrator exam
• Includes workouts and performance-based initiatives to make sure all examination pursuits might be accomplished through the Horizon dashboard and command-line interface
• Includes a unfastened OpenStack digital equipment to perform the targets lined during the book
• Includes a tradition examination to place your OpenStack talents to the try out to turn out you will have what it takes to overcome the stay exam
• Updated for the 2017 examination that includes OpenStack Newton

Book Description

This ebook will give you a particular technique to go the OpenStack Foundation's first expert certification: the qualified OpenStack Administrator. In a up to date survey, seventy eight% of respondents acknowledged the OpenStack abilities scarcity had deterred them from adopting OpenStack. ponder this a chance to extend corporation and client self assurance by way of proving you may have the talents required to administrate real-world OpenStack clouds.

You will commence your trip via getting well-versed with the OpenStack setting, knowing some great benefits of taking the examination, and fitting an integrated OpenStack all-in-one digital equipment so that you can paintings via goals coated in the course of the ebook. After exploring the fundamentals of the person prone, you can be brought to innovations to complete the examination targets correct to Keystone, look, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, fast, warmth, and troubleshooting.

Finally, you will enjoy the designated advice part and a convention examination to place your wisdom to the try out. by means of the tip of the adventure, you can be able to turn into a professional OpenStack Administrator!

What you are going to learn

• Manage the Keystone identification provider by means of developing and editing domain names, teams, initiatives, clients, roles, providers, endpoints, and quotas.
• Upload look photos, release new Nova circumstances, and create flavors, key pairs, and snapshots.
• Discover Neutron tenant and supplier networks, protection teams, routers, and floating IPs.
• Manage the Cinder block garage provider by way of developing volumes and attaching them to instances.
• Create speedy packing containers and set entry keep watch over lists to permit read/write entry on your objects.
• Explore warmth orchestration templates and create, record, and replace stacks.

About the Author

Matt Dorn is a senior technical teacher who has formerly served in IT management roles and has helped enormous quantities of groups around the globe construct inner most clouds with OpenStack. He is familiar with that many suppose loads of intimidation whilst impending open resource initiatives and is fanatical approximately offering an easy-to-understand studying course that makes OpenStack obtainable and fun.

Table of Contents

1. Intro to OpenStack and licensed OpenStack Administrator Exam
2. Setting Up Your perform examination Environment
3. Keystone identification carrier
4. Glance picture carrier
5. Nova Compute Service
6. Neutron Networking Service
7. Cinder Block garage Service
8. Swift item garage carrier
9. Heat Orchestration Service
10. Troubleshooting
11. Final advice and Tricks
12. Practice Exams