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Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

By : Matt Dorn
Book Image

Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

By: Matt Dorn

Overview of this book

This book provides you with a specific strategy to pass the OpenStack Foundation’s first professional certification: the Certified OpenStack Administrator. In a recent survey, 78% of respondents said the OpenStack skills shortage had deterred them from adopting OpenStack. Consider this an opportunity to increase employer and customer confidence by proving you have the skills required to administrate real-world OpenStack clouds. You will begin your journey by getting well-versed with the OpenStack environment, understanding the benefits of taking the exam, and installing an included OpenStack All-in-One Virtual Appliance to work through objectives covered throughout the book. After exploring the basics of the individual services, you will be introduced to strategies to accomplish the exam objectives relevant to Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Heat, and troubleshooting. Finally, you’ll benefit from the special tips section and a practice exam to put your knowledge to the test. By the end of the journey, you will be ready to become a Certified OpenStack Administrator!
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, Linux programs, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "You can fulfill majority of the exam objectives with python-openstackclient ."

A block of code is set as follows:

export OS_AUTH_URL=http://192.168.56.56:5000/v3
export OS_REGION_NAME=RegionOne
export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=default
export OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=default
export OS_USERNAME=admin
export OS_PASSWORD=admin
export OS_PROJECT_NAME=logistics
export OS_TENANT_NAME=logistics

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ openstack help

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "From the VirtualBox menu bar, select Preferences."

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.