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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)

Diving deeper into OpenStack

The content in this book certainly prepares you to succeed on the COA exam, but it covers only the tip of the iceberg of OpenStack knowledge! There is still a whole world to uncover on OpenStack, including topics such as high availability, building cloud-aware apps on OpenStack, and OpenStack networking. I recommend that you check out these titles if you want to dive deeper: OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Third Edition by Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch, and Egle Sigler, Troubleshooting OpenStack by Tony Campbell, and OpenStack Networking Essentials by James Denton.