Wind River Titanium Cloud Essentials
Acquire the skills necessary to use the cloud functionality that makes Wind River Titanium Cloud unique.
Course Description
The Wind River® Titanium Cloud™ Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to use the cloud functionality that makes Wind River Titanium Cloud unique.
Course Results
After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Be familiar with OpenStack and distinguish between vanilla OpenStack and Titanium Cloud functionality
- Configure system software (installation, patches, backups)
- Configure Titanium Cloud networking (provider/tenant networks, IP subnets)
- Exercise Titanium Cloud functionality on the virtual machine (VM) lifecycle (create, launch, migrate, backup, terminate)
Products Supported
- Wind River Titanium Cloud Release 5 (18.03)
Who Should Attend
- Service and network architects who want to understand and have hands-on experience with Titanium Cloud
- Titanium Cloud administrators interested in using the extended functionality of Titanium Cloud beyond the core OpenStack workflows
- Virtual network function (VNF) developers who want an introduction to Titanium Cloud’s capabilities
Course Format
- This four-day, expert-led course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
- Participants use laptops to follow the lectures and execute the training labs. The labs use an Internet connection.
- Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.
Syllabus
Day 1
Technology Overview
- Cloud computing service models
- OpenStack overview
- The telecommunications cloud
- Titanium Cloud architecture
System Capabilities
- Automated installation and commissioning
- Inventory management
- Alarm generation and reporting
- High-performance networking
- High availability
- Virtual machine performance
- Web administration interface
Hardware Overview
- Reference hardware configuration
- Internal and External networks
- Shared VLAN interfaces
- LAB: Getting Started with the Titanium Cloud Lab Environment
Linux User Accounts
- The wrsroot account
- Local user accounts
- LDAP user accounts
- Keystone credentials from the CLI
- LAB: Creating and Configuring Linux User Accounts for Titanium Cloud
- LAB: Creating Tenants and Users
Managing Software Patches
- Patching architecture
- Installing patches
- Installing patches before commissioning
- System software upgrade orchestration
Server Provisioning
- Controller software initialization
- UEFI secure boot and trusted boot
- Initializing other hosts
- The host lifecycle
- LAB: Exporting Ceilometer Data to CSV Files
- LAB: Installing Software Patches
System Backups
- System data and Cinder volume backups
- Restore operations
Day 2
Provider Networks
- Physical networks
- Flat provider networks
- VLAN and VXLAN provider networks
- Provider network troubleshooting
Data Interfaces
- Data interfaces
- LAB: Unlocking Compute Nodes
- LAB: Accessing Titanium Cloud SNMP Information
- LAB: Adding a New Compute Node
Tenant Networks
- Tenant network concepts
- Creating and configuring tenant networks
- Creating IP subnets
- Guest VLANs
- VLAN transparent networks
- LAB: Creating Tenant Networks from the admin Account
- LAB: Creating Tenant Networks from a User Account
- LAB: Configuring a Neutron Router
Day 3
Virtual Machine Configuration Options
- The virtual machine lifecycle
- VM flavors and extra specs
- Server groups
- Virtual Ethernet interfaces
- LAB: Configuring the Virtual Machine Running Environment
- LAB: Launching Virtual Machines Using Server Groups
Virtual Machine Deployment Operations
- Deployment operations
- Storage options
- Monitoring of tenant resources
- Live migration
- LAB: Using vtrace to Capture Raw AVS Packets
- LAB: Attaching and Detaching a Cinder Volume
- LAB: Migrating Live Virtual Machines
Day 4
High Availability
- Carrier grade design
- HA layers
- Host and VM monitoring
- Monitoring the execution environment
- Application monitoring
Heat Templates and Stacks
- Heat review
- Heat template structure
- Launching a stack
- Extensions
- LAB: Using Heat to Launch a Guest
SDK components
- The SDK archive file and components
- The README files
- Sample deployment
- LAB: Using the Titanium Cloud REST API
- LAB: Debugging System Issues Using Log Files
- LAB: Using a VXLAN Provider Network
- LAB: Modifying System Configuration Parameters
Prerequisites
Prerequisite Courses
- Training on OpenStack fundamentals, or appropriate experience with OpenStack operations, is helpful.
Prerequisite Skills
- Functional knowledge of the Linux operating system
Related Courses
- None
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COURSE DETAILS SUMMARY
- Duration: 4 Days
- Course Information: View
- Format: Lectures and Labs
- Type: Instructor-led