What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing OpenStack and the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam, takes you through a journey of the history of cloud computing and provides an introduction to OpenStack. You'll also learn about the exam and explore the seven steps to becoming an official Certified OpenStack Administrator.

Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Practice Exam Environment, provides instructions on setting up the virtual appliance included with this book. The appliance gives you a working OpenStack environment that can easily be deployed on your laptop or desktop and is great for working through exam objectives.

Chapter 3, Keystone Identity Service, introduces Keystone and all Keystone-related exam objectives, including creating and modifying domains, groups, projects, users, roles, services, endpoints, and quotas.

Chapter 4, Glance Image Service, defines cloud images and Glance exam objectives, including uploading and downloading cloud images, sharing images with specific projects, and utilizing metadata definitions.

Chapter 5, Nova Compute Service, explores Nova compute and covers exam objectives, including launching Nova instances, getting console access to booted instances, defining flavors, managing key pairs, and creating instance snapshots.

Chapter 6, Neutron Networking Service, dives into the world of OpenStack networking by providing an overview of Neutron and covers exam objectives including managing tenant and provider networks, subnets, security groups, routers, and floating IPs.

Chapter 7, Cinder Block-Storage Service, explains Cinder persistent block storage and exam objectives including creating volumes, attach/detaching volumes, volume snapshots, and creating volume types.

Chapter 8, Swift Object-Storage Service, discusses the birth of AWS S3, Swift object storage, and exam objectives, including setting Access Control Lists (ACLs) on containers and setting objectives to expire at specific times.

Chapter 9, Heat Orchestration Service, explains OpenStack Heat and exam objectives including creating and updating stacks.

Chapter 10, Troubleshooting, shows you how to perform debugging on the OpenStack CLI, manage OpenStack daemons, analyze OpenStack log files, and perform basic operations on an OpenStack database.

Chapter 11, Final Tips and Tricks, gives you some useful tips and tricks to keep in mind before taking the COA exam.

Chapter 12, Practice Exam, is a mock COA exam that you can use to put your OpenStack skills to test!