On day one, students attending the course will get an overview of the OpenStack comunity and software. The course focuses on IaaS, we explain the core architecture and the component relationships. The course also provides a brief introduction to other integrated (Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara etc.) and incubated programs to outline the capabilities an OpenStack installation can provide. This gives the students the ability to start with the hands on labs for which about 50% of time is dedicated. 
Day two is dedicated to offer a deeper look at OpenStack networking and storage concepts and to test those concepts out in the labs. 
Day three is dedicated to deployment models, tools and strategies, production grade deployment requirements and troubleshooting.

Course Objectives

• Learn about the OpenStack Foundation Comunity and Software
• Describe the IaaS funcionality of an Openstack installation 
• Describe the mechanisms and services that provide functionality to OpenStack 
• Identify the use cases and have the ability to plan a production deployment 
• Have the ability to perform basic service level troubleshooting 
• Manage identity task in OpenStack 
• Get hands on experience in creating and deploying instances, manage users, roles, projects, etc. through Dashboard And CLI

The course is designed to allow technical IT professionals with no experience or knowledge of OpenStack to learn about the essentials, understand the software suite and start working with OpenStack in production. Prior experience in virtualization, OpenSource operating systems and basic posix command line skills and networking experience are desired but not mandatory to attend this course.