Building and Using a Cloud with Nimbula Director

Building and Using a Cloud with Nimbula Director

Course Details:

Nimbula supports your organization’s implementation and usage of the Nimbula cloud operating system by providing your team with the skills and knowledge necessary to fully leverage and optimize Nimbula Director — from initial implementation and as you scale your environment.

The Building and Using a Cloud with Nimbula Director course addresses key roles involved in building and using a cloud built on Nimbula Director, including:

• Cloud Administrator - Manage underlying infrastructure resources, how much capacity is assigned to customers within the cloud and the network topology etc. for the site where Nimbula Director is deployed
• Tenant Administrator – Manage resources, policies, groups, users etc. for an individual customer account within the cloud
• End User – Manage individual compute instances, storage volumes etc. and the applications and data that runs within them

Concepts and labs in this course are presented based on the specific role they are intended for, which ensures that your team members will learn the specific skills required of their role—whether deploying, managing, or using Nimbula Director.

Scheduling and Pricing:

Please contact sales@nimbula.com to discuss pricing and scheduling

Course Format:

• 24 hours of instructor-led training course
• Lectures, instructor-led walk-throughs, labs and workshop
• Up to 12 students

Lab Environment:

• The lab environment will be a remotely hosted Nimbula Cloud

Students will learn how to:

• Leverage API driven software to deploy large fleets of heterogeneous x86 servers
• Implement a zero-touch server installation
• Implement multi-tenancy and security through sophisticated identity/permissions management and network isolation
• Implement self-service workflows for day to day user operations and most administrative tasks – all controlled by fine grained authorization policies
• Implement multi-site support where multiple Nimbula sites can be federated and managed as a single cloud
• Implement and manage a controlled hybrid cloud federation to a public cloud, such as Amazon EC2

Course Outline:

Concepts, Architecture, Initial Install & Interfaces
Module 1 - Introduction to Nimbula	Essential characteristics of a cloud Nimbula Director overview Common use cases
Module 2 - Nimbula Director Architecture & Concepts	Nimbula Director Control Plane Infrastructure Controller Basic Concepts: Machine Images, Instance, Site etc.
Module 3 - Installation	Planning the installation Networking requirements and configuration Installation process
Module 4 - Nimbula Director Interfaces	Nimbula Interfaces and the API Web interface overview The Command Line Interface (CLI)
Nimbula Cloud Administration
Module 5 - General Cloud Administration	Customer management Monitoring Node management
Module 6 - Configuring Networking	vEthernets Security Lists Distributed NAT
Module 7 - Configuring Storage	Storage Options Nimbula Disk Service Storage Pools
Nimbula Tenant Administration
Module 8 - Identity Management	Manage users and groups Delegation model Manage permissions
Module 9 - Using Nimbula Director Networking Services	Security Lists Distributed NAT IP pool
Using Nimbula Director
Module 10 - Work with Instances	Image lists Snapshot an instance Attach a storage volume to an instance
Module 11: Create a Launch Plan	Creating a Launch Plan Launch Plan JSON file Launch plan for a multi-instance application
Module 12 - Build Nimbula Director Machine Images	Hardware and software requirements Nimbula compatible images Steps to create a fresh image
Module 13: Instance Configuration Management	Instance Configuration Management Basics Common Tools: Chef, Puppet and CFengine Using Puppet with Nimbula
Advanced Topics
Module 14 - Federation	Federation overview Federation to a Public Cloud Provider (Amazon EC2) Multi-site federation
Module 15 - Maintenance & Troubleshooting	The Nimbula logging system Troubleshooting best practices Procedure to create a log archive for support
Workshop
Create a DTAP (Development, Test, Acceptance and Production) environment for 2 customers within Nimbula Director