Red Hat Cloud Architecture

Course Description

Red Hat cloud solutions provide a combination of mature open source technologies unified by robust, easy-to-use management tools and processes.

The Red Hat Cloud Architecture (CL350) two-day course is designed for IT architects who require a detailed understanding of Red Hat cloud capabilities and wish to gain the knowledge needed to select the right components and develop applications for their organization's private cloud. Students will participate in a detailed, task-oriented introduction to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing by exploring a private cloud computing reference architecture built with Red Hat software.

Throughout the course, students will perform tasks using this private cloud, including deploying hypervisor hosts, deploying virtual machines in the cloud, and managing the virtual machine lifecycle and resources. In addition to exploring the deployment and unified management of distributed applications across hosted, in-house, or hybrid cloud resources, students will learn how these flexible systems can easily shift or scale to meet changing needs.

Skills Gained

• A vocabulary for describing cloud services and deployments
• Managing the deployment and lifecycle of virtual guests using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
• Deploying software to Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using Red Hat Network Satellite
• Deploying JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) applications using JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON)
• Efficiently scheduling work with Red Hat MRG Grid
• Introduction to Red Hat CloudForms, an evolving product for integrating private and public clouds into a unified hybrid cloud

Who Can Benefit

• Experienced Linux system administrators and IT professionals who are responsible for using Red Hat technologies to deploy a cloud technologies
• Technical decision-makers seeking an overview of the Red Hat cloud reference architecture for a private IaaS cloud

Prerequisites

• Students must be familiar with concepts and skills tested in the RHCSA certification
• A high-level understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, KVM, and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite

Syllabus

Designing a phased approach to cloud computing

• Discuss characteristics, service models, and deployment models for cloud computing

Cloud infrastructure management services

• Learn how to use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Management and RHN Satellite and how to manage users

Deploying hosts

• Learn how to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 hosts

Deploying virtual machines

• Deploy virtual machines using PXE, ISO images, and templates

Managing virtual machines

• Learn how to monitor, suspend, and resume virtual machines

Deploying applications

• Deploy applications using RHN Satellite and templates

Deploying JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) applications using JBoss® Operations Network (ON)

• Deploy and scale JBoss EAP applications using Satellite and templates

Scheduling work using Red Hat MRG Grid

• Deploy and scale a MRG Grid application

Bridging public and private clouds with CloudForms

• Understand the evolving family of Red Hat products for unifying application management in private, public, and hybrid clouds