CL170 OpenStack Administration: Control Plane Management Course
CL170 OpenStack Administration: Control Plane Management Training
The CL170 course offers practical, hands-on training in configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Red Hat OpenStack clusters. Tailored for platform engineers, cloud administrators, and system administrators, CL170 focuses on essential skills for managing both the OpenStack control plane and data plane to ensure high performance, security, and reliability in enterprise cloud environments.
Key learning outcomes of CL170 include:
- Navigating Red Hat OpenStack architecture using both graphical and command-line tools.
- Managing and monitoring OpenStack services, with emphasis on custom configurations and high availability.
- Verifying API connectivity, encrypted network traffic, and OpenStack service health.
- Customizing compute and storage nodes to enhance data plane performance.
- Troubleshooting OpenStack environments to maintain uptime and service reliability.
Upon completion of the CL170 course, participants will be equipped to effectively supervise, optimize, and secure Red Hat OpenStack deployments, enhancing overall operational efficiency across cloud infrastructure.
CL170 is available in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Hobart, and throughout Australia via live virtual delivery.
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Completion of Red Hat System Administration I (RH124); System Administration II (RH134) and Ansible (RH294) are recommended but not required.
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Familiarity with OpenShift Administration (DO180) or equivalent experience.
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Understanding of data center storage and networking concepts, including storage protocols, VLANs, firewalls, and core Internet protocols (e.g. ICMP, IP, HTTP).
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Experience with object storage (e.g. AWS S3) and Ceph is helpful but not required.
There is no certification exam associated with this course.
OpenStack Administration: Control Plane Management material provided
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Linux System Administration: Understanding core tasks for managing Linux-based systems, including installation, configuration, and performance tuning.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Skills: Hands-on experience with RHEL, commonly used in enterprise-grade OpenStack deployments.
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Automation with Ansible: Exposure to Ansible for automating administrative tasks, increasing efficiency, and reducing manual errors.
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Data Center Networking & Storage: Familiarity with networking protocols (IP, ICMP, VLANs) and storage systems (NAS, SAN) used in large-scale infrastructures.
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Ceph Storage Concepts: An introduction to Ceph for distributed storage—useful in OpenStack-based architectures.
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Object Storage Awareness: Understanding the role of object storage platforms (e.g. AWS S3) in modern cloud infrastructure.
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System Troubleshooting: Developing diagnostic skills to resolve issues within Linux and OpenStack environments.
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Security Best Practices: Learning approaches to secure Linux systems and cloud workloads in line with enterprise standards.
- Platform Engineers: Professionals responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining platforms and infrastructure using Red Hat OpenStack.
- Cloud Administrators: Individuals managing and optimizing cloud environments, particularly those using Red Hat OpenStack to deploy and manage cloud services.
- System Administrators: IT professionals who manage and maintain Linux-based systems, with a focus on Red Hat OpenStack clusters.
- Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- Learn about Red Hat OpenShift architecture and resources.
- Navigate both graphical and command-line interfaces.
- Find and use information about commands.
- Inspecting OpenStack Services on OpenShift
- Identify OpenStack services on OpenShift.
- Check the health of OpenStack operators and their resources.
- Customizing OpenStack Services
- Enable and disable OpenStack services.
- Customize OpenStack services based on needs.
- Verifying OpenStack API Connectivity
- Identify resources that connect OpenStack control plane to the data plane.
- Verifying Connectivity to OpenStack Cell Services
- Ensure OpenStack cell is connected to its database and messaging services.
- Validate services that connect it to compute nodes.
- Accessing Storage Resources in OpenStack
- Verify the status and connectivity of OpenStack storage resources.
- Verifying Reliable OpenStack Services
- Configure and assess high availability of OpenStack control plane and supporting services.
- Verifying Network Encryption for OpenStack Services
- Inspect OpenStack component configurations.
- Ensure network communication is encrypted with certificates.
- Inspecting Data Plane Services and Compute Nodes
- Identify and assess the health of OpenStack data plane resources.
- Customizing an OpenStack Data Plane
- Apply custom configurations to data plane node sets.
- Verify that custom settings are applied correctly.
- DO710 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Boot Camp Course
- CS220 Creating Production Grade OpenShift Clusters Course
- DO700 Container Adoption Boot Camp Course for Administrators
- DO458: Network Automation with Red Hat Ansible Course
- AD440: Red Hat AMQ Administration Course
- DO180: Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes
- RH124: Red Hat System Administration I Course
- RH134: Red Hat System Administration II Course
- RH199: RHCSA Rapid Track course
- RH254: Red Hat System Administration III Course

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