Deep Dive into OpenStack (2025.2): Architecture, Virtualization, Networking & Storage with Production-Grade Deployment
Build your own OpenStack (2025.2 flamingo) cloud from scratch — and truly understand how it works under the hood.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the internal workings of OpenStack, including virtualization, networking overlays, messaging, and storage backends..
- Plan and design a production-grade OpenStack cloud, including hardware sizing, networking, Ceph, HA, and infrastructure layout..
- Deploy a fully working multi-node OpenStack environment with Kolla-Ansible, Ceph storage, TLS security, and all major services..
- Troubleshoot and maintain OpenStack, using real-life debugging techniques, logs, and disaster recovery workflows..
Course Content
- Introduction & High-Level Foundations –> 4 lectures • 39min.
- Preparing the Environment –> 4 lectures • 36min.
- Identity Service (Keystone) –> 4 lectures • 39min.
- Image Service (Glance) –> 2 lectures • 30min.
- Placement Service –> 2 lectures • 11min.
- Compute Service (Nova) –> 5 lectures • 1hr 6min.
- Networking Service (Neutron) –> 7 lectures • 1hr 42min.
- Block Storage (Cinder) –> 2 lectures • 48min.
- Dashboard (Horizon) –> 2 lectures • 47min.
- OpenStack in Production: Planning & Infrastructure –> 7 lectures • 55min.
- Production Storage & Deployment –> 3 lectures • 1hr 24min.
- Advanced OpenStack –> 3 lectures • 22min.
- Outro –> 1 lecture • 1min.
Requirements
Build your own OpenStack (2025.2 flamingo) cloud from scratch — and truly understand how it works under the hood.
This course is a deep, practical, production-focused journey through OpenStack, designed for engineers, DevOps professionals, and IT teams who want to move beyond simple tutorials and gain real, hands-on cloud experience. Instead of memorizing commands without context, you will learn how each OpenStack service fits into the bigger picture and how real cloud platforms operate.
You won’t just deploy OpenStack. You will understand how the entire platform works, including how Nova uses virtualization and hardware acceleration, how Neutron builds networks, overlays, and namespaces, and how Cinder and Ceph deliver reliable distributed storage. You will also explore how identity, images, scheduling, and networking interact internally to form a complete cloud ecosystem.
The course also teaches you how to diagnose, debug, and fix real cloud issues, from broken networking to misconfigured services and failed nodes. You will learn how to plan and deploy OpenStack the same way cloud providers do, combining best-practice architecture with practical troubleshooting skills.
This is not a “copy commands and hope it works” course. It is a complete, step-by-step mastery program that takes you from core fundamentals to production-grade deployment with Ceph, TLS security, logging, automation, and disaster recovery. By the end, you will be able to confidently build, operate, and repair real OpenStack environments.