In this rapid introduction to Mirantis Container Cloud, students will learn how to deploy Kubernetes clusters to in a virtual bare metal environment using MCC, as well as how to manage user permissions, Stacklight-based monitoring and logging tools, and third-party monitoring integrations.  This course is designed to help your operators get up to speed quickly on the architecture and configuration best practices of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes. We will focus on understanding the underlying Kubernetes elements that deploy OpenStack services on your infrastructure. We will also explore some of the tunable parameters to customize your OpenStack deployment, and demonstrate how these changes are deployed on a live environment. You will get hands-on experience performing a backup of the OpenStack database using tools built into MOS.

This course is targeted at students with the following:

• Motivations: 

  • Deploy and configure the underlying Kubernetes Cluster for MOS.

  • Operate a containerized OpenStack cloud.

• Roles: This course is intended for System Operators, Administrators, engineers who have the basic knowledge of Linux, virtualization and containerization technologies, Kubernetes API and CLI, Helm and Helm charts, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, and OpenStack.

• Familiarity with Linux command line and kubectl.

• Laptop with WiFi connectivity

Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io

• Mirantis Container Cloud Architecture

  • Management, regional, managed and attached cluster usage and architecture

  • Installation and setup of management and managed clusters

• MCC User Management

  • Using Keycloak to manage user permissions

  • Integrating LDAP with MCC

  • Managing permissions for multitenancy

• Cluster Logging & Monitoring

  • Stacklight configuration and cluster integration

  • Using Prometheus and Grafana dashboards

  • Customizing Stacklight configurations & third-party integrations

  • Exploring logs with Kibana

• Explain each component of the MOS infrastructure stack.

• Use multiple methods to access openstack APIs running on MOS

• Configure supported OpenStack parameters and update the OpenStack version on a live environment.

• Run common OpenStack operations tasks (taking a backup of the Openstack database)