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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)

Keystone and the OpenStack CLI

95% of the COA objectives can be completed via the Horizon dashboard, but there still some tasks that require using the CLI.

Let's begin our work on the CLI. Open up your terminal client and SSH into your virtual appliance (see
Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Practice Exam Environment, for instructions on how to do this).

Recall that an OpenStack user needs to ask their OpenStack administrator (that's you!) for the initial authentication information to get started using OpenStack and the CLI. So what's the minimal amount of information a user would need to authenticate against OpenStack?

  • Keystone authentication endpoint: A URL location of the Keystone API daemon. In production OpenStack environments, it is typically a resolvable name like https://mycloud.example.com:5000/v3, or an external IP address.
  • Domain: The domain your user lives...