Hands-on introduction to OpenStack, Docker & Cloud Computing

Explore the five essential cloud characteristics defined by NIST—on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service—through practical api calls and auto-scaling examples.

Discover how IaaS cloud architecture uses regions and availability zones to deliver highly available, scalable workloads, with foundation services like compute, networking, storage, and regional endpoints.

Virtualization in the cloud decouples infrastructure from hardware, enabling rapid allocation and elastic, multi-tenant resource pooling for compute, network, and storage services delivered via software.

Discover how hypervisors enable on-demand virtual machines by partitioning resources and isolating guests, covering type 1 and type 2 hypervisors, hosts, guests, and cloud instances.

Explore how Docker containers provide os-level isolation on the host kernel without a hypervisor, and how container images package code, libraries, and runtimes for deployment from registries like Docker Hub.

Understand Docker architecture, including the Docker host, dockerd daemon, and Docker client, and how images are pulled from registries and pushed to registries with swarm mode for scaling.

Compare virtual machines and containers, highlighting OS-level virtualization, kernel sharing, and isolation. Learn how CI-CD enables atomic container updates and easier deployment and scaling versus VM-based approaches.

Explore how docker container networking uses bridge and overlay drivers to provide multi-host connectivity, DNS-based service discovery, IP address management, and plugin-enabled network extensions across private OpenStack and public clouds.

Explore how container orchestration engines automate deployment and scheduling of containerized workloads on a cluster, using kubernetes, swarm, and mesos to manage pods, services, replication, and scaling.

Explore OpenStack, the open source cloud platform in Python that enables private, public, and hybrid clouds, using modular services like compute and networking, REST APIs, and AMQP messaging.

Explore the history and evolution of OpenStack, from NASA and Rackspace's 2010 origins using the Nebula code base, to the OpenStack Foundation and six-month release cycles.

Learn how OpenStack governs cloud projects through the OpenStack way: open source, open community, open development, and open design, overseen by PTL, PTO, and DCs.

Provides a 500-foot view of six popular OpenStack projects—Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, and Swift—covering identity, authentication, authorization, service catalog, compute, networking, and block storage, image service, and object storage.

Explore horizon's view of OpenStack projects, including Heat for orchestration, telemetry for metering, Magnum for containers, Trove for databases, Sahara for data processing, and Ironic for bare metal.

Explore how Keystone authentication and token-based API calls enable Horizon to orchestrate OpenStack compute, image, network, and storage services via the service catalog.

Explore how OpenStack networking with the neutron server provisions multi-vendor networks using rest APIs, Horizon UI, and plugin mechanism drivers across physical and virtual infrastructure.

Compare the old host-OS deployment with the new docker container approach. Containers isolate libraries, prevent conflicts, and enable portable, consistent deployment from development to production across clouds.

Explore immutable infrastructure built from minimal atomic host OS and container images, where updates replace running software rather than in-place changes, enabling automated, predictable rollovers and easy rollbacks.