<p>In the past decade cloud computing has been gaining popularity at a tremendous rate. Some cloud providers are experiencing a growth rate of 50% year over year, which is just astounding. And the reason for this growth is obvious: cloud computing enables ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal effort. As companies across the globe enjoy the benefits of public cloud infrastructure, they also want to leverage the same principles of cloud computing and bring those benefits to how they manage their own private data centers or build private clouds on top of public cloud infrastructure. These private cloud deployments provide a secure and highly efficient way to install, configure, and manage pooled computing resources that could be shared among various departments or groups within the organization. The provisioning and consumption of these pooled resources becomes much smoother and consumers can use these resources on a self-service basis, eliminating lengthy provisioning wait times, and so on. OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for building and managing your own IaaS cloud infrastructure. This cloud software platform comprises of various services and components which can configure and manage control hardware pools of computing power, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users either manage it through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through a RESTful API. In this course we will learn about OpenStack and its various components and services. We will get an in-depth look at how we can use OpenStack to deploy and manage our own private cloud infrastructure. Knowledge and experience on cloud computing and OpenStack are highly sought after by startups and large enterprises alike. The demand for these skills has been steadily increasing over the last few years. We will also go through some evidence about just how valuable these skills are and how the demand for these skills is growing.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>A short, hands-on course with good information on Openstack. OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for building and managing our own IaaS cloud infrastructure.</p>