Private Cloud with OpenStack and Ceph Storage

Step by step guide to deploy Private cloud with OpenStack and Ceph Storage

Created by: Kar Wei Tan
IT Infrastructure Professional

What Will I Learn?

• Understand Openstack and its Core components
• Understand Ceph Storage cluster
• Understand Object Storage Concept
• Understand Ceph RADOS Building blocks
• Understand Ceph CRUSH map
• Understand Ceph Pool and Placement Group
• Understand the role of Ceph Monitor daemon
• Understand the role of Ceph OSD daemon
• Setup Virtual Machine with Virtualbox
• Adding additional disk to Virtualbox VM
• Install and Configure CentOS 7 64bit minimal ISO
• Architecture 2 nodes Distributed Openstack cluster
• Create and Upload Image in Glance Image service and store in Local File System
• Discover and Add new Nova Compute node in Openstack
• Configure and Run Neutron Networking agents such as Linuxbridge Layer 2 agent, Layer 3 agent, DHCP agent
• Launch virtual instance in Openstack
• Accessing virtual instance with VNC
• Architect 3 nodes Distributed Ceph Storage cluster
• Install and Configure Ceph Cluster with ceph-deploy
• Configure the Replication Factor for Ceph Storage Cluster
• Preparing and Activating OSD disk to Ceph Storage Cluster
• Check Ceph Storage Health status
• Configure Glance image service in Openstack to store image in Ceph Storage Cluster
• Create a test volume in Openstack that will stored in Ceph Storage Cluster
• Launch a virtual instance that will build the VM image in Ceph Storage Cluster

Requirements

• Familiar with CentOS 7
• Sound understanding of Linux command line
• Basic MySQL knowledge
• Basic understanding of networking
• Basic concept of cloud computing (Preferable)
• Basic understanding of Virtualization, especially Virtualbox (Preferable)

Target audience

• Cloud engineer
• IT professional who is interested with OpenStack cloud
• IT professional who is interested with Ceph Object storage
• IT professional who is interested in Private cloud
• IT professional who is interested with Software Defined Storage
• IT professional who is interested with Object Based Storage
• IT students who is interested with Cloud Infrastructure