This course is designed for Linux^® system administrators, cloud administrators, and cloud operators.

Prerequisites for this course

• Red Hat OpenStack Administration I (CL110) course or equivalent experience
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent experience

Course introduction

Introduce and review the course.

Manage an enterprise OpenStack deployment


Manage the undercloud, the overcloud, and related services.

Manage internal OpenStack communication

Administer the Keystone identity service and the advanced message queueing protocol (AMQP) messaging service.

Build and customize images

Build and customize images.

Manage storage

Manage Ceph and Swift storage for OpenStack.

Manage resilient compute resources

Add compute nodes, manage shared storage, and perform live instance migration.

Manage and troubleshoot


Manage and troubleshoot virtual network infrastructure.

Manage resilient compute resources

Add compute nodes, manage shared storage, and perform live instance migration.

Troubleshoot OpenStack issues


Diagnose and troubleshoot OpenStack issues and services.

Monitor cloud metrics for autoscaling


Monitor and analyze cloud metrics for use in orchestration autoscaling.

Orchestrate deployments

Deploy Heat stacks that automatically scale.

Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves. For questions or confirmation on a specific objective or topic, contact a Red Hatter.

Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack exam (EX210)

Demonstrate your ability to build and manage private clouds using Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Red Hat OpenStack Administration III (CL310)

Learn to deploy, manage, and configure Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Red Hat OpenStack Administration III with exam (CL311)

Learn to deploy, manage, and configure Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenStack Platform and demonstrate your skills and knowledge to become a Red Hat Certified Engineer in Red Hat OpenStack.

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to troubleshoot and manage the life cycle of a private cloud. Control of the life cycle is important for organizations seeking to manage costs according to their own schedule, and having advanced administrators reduces downtime.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to manage the life cycle of Red Hat OpenStack Platform.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Understand the concepts of undercloud, overcloud, and Heat templates.
• Manage internal Red Hat OpenStack Platform communication.
• Build custom disk images.
• Manage Ceph and Swift.
• Troubleshoot an SDN infrastructure.
• Manage resilient compute resources.
• Troubleshoot general Red Hat OpenStack Platform issues.
• Monitor cloud metrics.
• Deploy Heat stacks.