OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver

This session is an introduction for operators on Openstack Networking. Users will be provided access to a live Openstack environment to install and configure Openstack Networking Neutron.
We will walk through configuration of Neutron with the ML2 plugin via OpenvSwitch(OVS) and L3 services with OpenvSwitch Virtual Networking(OVN).

Demonstrated features will include:
- Interaction with other OpenStack components (Compute & Storage)
- Configuration of Metadata Services and DHCP Services
- Designing Neutron for HA
- Troubleshooting Neutron

This session highlights how the environment is configured for Openstack Networking Hands on Lab at previous Openstack Summits.

In this 201 walkthrough session I will guide attendees through a live demonstration of installing, configuring and using OpenStack with native Heat, Ceilometer, Nova, LBaaS and other services to achieve autoscaling of guest instance workloads.

Throughout the demonstration I will take time to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using autoscale, popular use cases and configuration details.

 

Designed for IT professionals looking to expand their OpenStack Networking knowledge, Test Drive your OpenStack Network Hands-on Lab is a complete lab module that walks users through the creation and configuration of multi-tenant OpenStack Networks.

OpenStack Networking (Neutron) Hands-on Lab [90 Minutes]

• Create Tenants in OpenStack


• Create a Network for a 3-tier Application


• Configure Overlapping IPs for different tenant networks


• Configure External Connectivity


• Configure Security Groups


• Learn out to monitor & troubleshoot your Tenant Network

Know OpenStack is cool but afraid to jump on the command line to use it?  In this hands-on workshop, participants will journey through the basics of using OpenStack with the command line interface.

Each participant will receive credentials for an OpenStack environment they will SSH into and receive instructor-led training on using the OpenStack command line like a real-world pro!  At the end of this hands-on workshop, participants will know how to utilize the OpenStack command line interface to create networks, upload images, and boot their very first OpenStack instance!  No prior OpenStack experience is necessary!

During this 90 minute workshop, you will learn about Docker with hands-on instruction, plus exposure to additional tools and techniques you can combine with it to make productive use of this exciting and powerful tool in combination with OpenStack.

We will cover the fundamentals of Docker, how to use Docker Machine to start Docker containers on an OpenStack cloud, and how to author Dockerfiles.

Prerequisites 
• Attendees must have completed the on-line Docker tutorial at docker.io at: https://www.docker.com/tryit/

• Attendees must have a public OpenStack Cloud account with an valid API token ready to use. You may use the Rackspace Cloud if you do not have one of your own.

• A github account. You will fork a repository for use with our lesson on Dockerfile creation.

The only software needed on your laptop is the docker-machine binary, which requires no installation, and has no extra dependencies, and will be provided to you to download on the day of the workshop.

Outline 
This workshop is made up of 3 lessons and 3 labs. When finished, participants will be able to launch containers, kill containers, build container images, and inject configuration into them. Participants will also know how to link and/or network containers over secure connections that allow for composite applications to be split across multiple containers.

• LESSON 1 - PART 1 - Introduction to Docker, Explanation of Cgroups, Kernel Namespaces, and Docker Images. (15 Min)

• LESSON 1 - PART 2 - Toolbox overview. Description of Docker Hub, Trusted build system, Weave, Flannel, etcd, CoreOS, Magnum, Kubernetes, and how Docker works with OpenStack. (15 Min)

• Hands-on LAB 1 - Using docker-machine. Spin up Docker containers on OpenStack, switch between docker hosts. How to run ad-hoc containers on the fly for experimentation, and how to move a container from one host to another. How to get a shell on a Docker host, and how to get a shell in a Docker container without running sshd in the container. (15 Min)

• LESSON 2 - Detailed overview of authoring Dockerfiles. What each of the directives do, which ones we suggest you use. Demonstration of copying files into containers using bind mounts, and copying files out of containers using ""docker cp"". Why Dockerfiles are better than customized images made manually and stored with commit. (15 Min)

• Hands-on LAB 2 - Writing Dockerfiles. Saving a Dockerfile in a source repo, and using a build script for configuration injection. (20 Min)

• Wrap Up. Summary. Where to go to find additional resources.

In this interactive workshop, the Designate team will walk attendees through the installation and configuration of Designate on a virtual machine. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the various components of Designate, including the new services such as the MiniDNS and Pool Manager, and with a working single-VM install on their laptops.
 

Attendees will learn:

• Designate Architecture 101




• How to Install and Configure Designate




• How to perform day to day Designate operations tasks




• End user usage of the API, CLI and Horizon UI




• Tips and Tricks for using Designate




• Contributing to Designate 101

OpenStack Heat provides a framework for predefining a structured service, and allows you instantiate that service in an automated manner. This hands-on lab will walk the participants through the process of creating a Heat template file for a multi-tiered web application that will include multiple image templates, custom networking, and volume storage. It will also cover how to setup the template to accept parameters to allow for on-the-fly customization.  Finally, we will introduce participants to advanced concepts such as auto-scaling, load-balancing, and more.

*Note - Participants will be required to have their own laptop in order to participate in the lab.*

We all know Cinder offers the awesome ability to create storage volumes, attach them to instances, and use them anyway you wish.


The truth is, not all workloads are created equal!  With Cinder QOS, OpenStack Administrators can now offer their users Cinder volumes in a variety of performance flavors!

In this hands-on lab, participants will receive credentials for a live OpenStack environment and learn how to create Cinder types and QOS specs.  Participants will then boot instances, create Cinder volumes, attach them to their instances, and test their speeds live on an actual OpenStack environment!  

This workshop is to cover how to implement Multi-tenant Isolation within your OpenStack cloud.  The demand to completely segergate your cloud tenants from a compute and block storage aspect seems to be on the rise.  So if you are planning to build a multi-tenant cloud, this is the session you must not miss.  Knowing the best method to handle this within your environment could help avoid spending uncessary money on additional hardware and time.  Be the OpenStack rockstar for your organization.

Attendees will be presented with step-by-step instructions on how to setup their clouds for Multi-Tenant Isolation.  They will also receive the base prerequistes to do this, known issues to avoid and future OpenStack improvements to make the process easier.  We will step thru how to do it manually and also examine how the steps can be automated using Ansible.

 

Congress is an OpenStack project that provides policy as a service across any collection of cloud services in order to offer governance and compliance for dynamic infrastructures. In this lab users will get access to a live OpenStack setup with congress already installed and will be able to walk through several key congress deployment use cases and get hands on experience working with congress. Users will write policies that interface with several OpenStack projects (neutron, glance, nova,  keystone, cinder, murano) and understand how the policy language works and how one can tame their cloud with congress.

 

Group Based Policy (GBP) provides declarative abstractions for achieving scalable intent-based infrastructure automation within OpenStack. 

In this session, users will access a GBP + Neutron setup and have a tour through the most common use cases, including but not limited to policy-driven application life cycle management and advanced service chain deployment. Users will learn how to deploy and scale a multi-tier application, complete with L4-7 services, and move it between development and production seamlessly using the GBP framework for network orchestration.

 

Basic introduction to  machine data/log analysis 

Everyone will receive devstack VM with broken OpenStack installation.

Prerequisite is to have Virtual box .

We will touch base into core openstack components like Nova,Neutron,Cinder,Glance,Heat

Your goal is to:

1.Plug your installation into troubleshooting platform

2.Check your installation 

3.Diagnose existing problems if any . look at logs etc

4.Narrow down issues

5.Mitigate issues

6.Best practices for openstack


Attendees will need to use link below to download the software for lab .

URL goo.gl/CQybQ2

The goal for both OpenStack and Cloud Foundry foundations is to build open source software and communities. The software is intended for public, private and managed clouds. Cloud Foundry is intended for a variety of IaaS including OpenStack.

This Hands-on session will cover the basics of Cloud Foundry. We will discuss the motivation for a PaaS, how they complement IaaS and OpenStack in particular. Attend this session for a quick technical overview of Cloud Foundry and to be able to deploy a variety of apps. on the platform that handle requirements such as HA, Scaling, Logging, Monitoring, Debugging, etc.

First, we deploy Cloud Foundry OpenStack. We will look at how to leverage BOSH to manage OpenStack VM instances. Then we'll dive into a hands-on lab showing the use of PaaS to deploy a wide variety of applications and micro services to an OpenStack cloud. This session will be of value to developers, devops, systems adminstrators, and any IT decision makers.

After attending this session you should be able to walk away with a good understanding of Cloud Foundry and how it complements an IaaS like OpenStack.

We will cover the following topics as short exercises

o Managing Cloud Foundry install and system administration

o Cloud Foundry internals and concepts

o cf push sample application

o High Availability

o Multiple exercises involving the following

o Scaling including Autoscaling

o Hooking up MySQL and other services

o User Provided Services and Logging

o Security groups

o Tying things together

Motivation:

I attended a BlueMix Hands-on Labs and spent my time moving my Java/Scala apps. that I had running on my laptop and on run.pivotal.io to IBM BlueMix. I was surprised at the ease of effort and how it would simplify a developer's everyday life and not have to worry about aspects such as HA, scalability, security and so on. I wanted to shout out to the world about this as much as I was excited by the portability of Java more than a decade back. I did on Twitter and I am following up here -- there are some minor buildpack, service related issues, but it just works for the most part.