Prasanta Kumar Behera
OpenStack Private Cloud
Learning Hub / Cloud — OpenStack, AWS & EKS

OpenStack Private Cloud

Practitioner → Advanced9 lessonsAvailable

OpenStack runs large private and telco clouds. Understand each service (Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder with Ceph), deploy it with Kolla-Ansible, operate and troubleshoot it, and know where it fits next to Kubernetes and public cloud.

You'll meetKeystoneNovaNeutronGlanceCinderCephHeatKolla-AnsibleOVS / OVN
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What you'll be able to do

  • Explain how an instance request flows through Keystone, Nova, Neutron and Glance
  • Troubleshoot common compute, network and volume failures
  • Deploy and upgrade OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible
  • Choose between OpenStack, Kubernetes and public cloud for a workload

Before you start

Linux Level 2, basic networking.

How it works

Each lesson: plain-language idea → how it really works → hands-on. Each section ends with a cheat sheet & self-check.

Curriculum

Lessons marked “Read” are ready; the rest are on the way.

Modules

  1. 01OpenStack architectureControl plane, message queue, databases, API flowRead →
  2. 02Keystone: identity & projectsDomains, projects, roles, tokens, service catalogRead →
  3. 03Nova: compute & schedulingHypervisors, flavors, placement, live migrationRead →
  4. 04Neutron: networkingProvider vs self-service networks, OVS/OVN, security groupsRead →
  5. 05Storage: Glance, Cinder & CephImages, volumes, RBD backendsRead →
  6. 06OrchestrationHeat templates and Terraform for OpenStackRead →
  7. 07Deploying with Kolla-AnsibleContainerised control plane, HA, upgradesRead →
  8. 08Operations & troubleshootingLogs, RabbitMQ, stuck instances and volumesRead →
  9. 09OpenStack, Kubernetes & public cloudWhere each fits, and running Kubernetes on OpenStackRead →
  10. 📋Cheat sheet & self-checkEvery command from this section on one page, then 27 questions to check yourself.Open →

Real-world scenarios

Work through each one: symptom → misleading signal → evidence → root cause → prevention.

Instances boot but get no IP

DHCP agent, network namespaces and security groups.

A volume stuck in 'detaching'

Cinder state vs reality, and how to reconcile safely.

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