Networking in OpenStack® using Neutron

This two-day course will take students through an in depth look at the OpenStack Network service Neutron. The result will be the skills to design and build a scalable extensible network within an OpenStack environment. The students will get hands-on lab experience of many of the course topics in a dedicated, pre-built OpenStack environment. This course assists in preparing students to pass introductory level OpenStack certification exams.

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Understand the OpenStack networking components and how they work together
• Understand the architecture and extensibility of an OpenStack based network
• Troubleshoot an OpenStack based network
• Helps prepare you for OpenStack certification exams including the Mirantis OpenStack Administrator Certification Associate Level (MCA100)

• Network Administrators
• Network Architects
• Solution Architects
• Sales Engineers
• Technical Marketing Staff
• OpenStack Administrators
• OpenStack Architects

Have a good grasp on networking fundamentals:

• TCP/IP
• Ethernet
• Routing, Firewalls etc.

and attendance of the following courses, or possessing equivalent skills:

• OpenStack Foundations (H6C68S)
• Linux Fundamentals (U8583S)
• HPE Cloud Overview (HK917AAE)

Module 1: Course overview

• Set out the course objectives

Module 2: Overview of an OpenStack network based on Neutron

• Architecture
  • Neutron Components
  • Different network types and purposes
• Implementation Scenarios
  • Single tenant
  • Multi-tenant
• Removing Nova networking

Module 3: Installation and configuration of Neutron components

• Installing the controller components
• Installing the network node components
• Installing the compute node components
• Configuring the components to work together
• Using the OpenStack Dashboard Horizon to manage networking
• The networking command line

Module 4: Some other technologies used by Neutron

• Using plugins to extend the network
• Software Defined Networking primer
  • OpenDaylight overview
• Discuss the ML2 plugin
• Look at Open vSwitch and OpenFlow
• Establish the need for overlay networks
• The overlay protocols available
• Configuring and managing overlay networks

Module 5: Layer 3 services

• DHCP
• NAT
• Floating IP addresses
• Security

Module 6: High Availability and scale

• Building resilient into a Neutron based OpenStack network
  • Service resilience
  • DHCP resilience
  • Network resilience
• Scaling the network
  • Effect on controller and network nodes
• Adding compute nodes

Module 7: Troubleshooting Neutron based networks

• Tools available
• Log locations and use
• Techniques to employ
• Example problems and resolution