Introduction
CloudStack encompasses a large body of knowledge, from system administration, network administration, storage management to software engineering and open source practices. Currently all our content is spread out among the Wiki, SlideShare, YouTube etc. There is a need to create a stand alone "course" that any new comers can take organize this body of knowledge in a coherent manner to provide a learning path for our community members and anyone interested to learn about Clouds. The CloudStack University aims to fill this gap by providing courses and student projects.
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Vision:
The syllabus of the course would follow a traditional one-semester long calendar of roughly 16 weeks. We would have one lecture per week ( ~45 minutes given via webinar and recorded for later view, note that some of the topics will be hard to cover in 45 minutes). Once recorded the course could be taken as a self-paced course by anyone. Additionally the content could be formatted for sites like iTunes university. While we would use this course for CloudStack it should contain generic information applicable outside the CloudStack realm.
Tentative Syllabus (some slides as examples):
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Week
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Lecture Title
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Lecture Content
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Lecturer
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Slides
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Video
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1
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Introduction to Cloud Computing and CloudStack
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Basics of *aaS, Characteristics of Cloud computing, examples of OSS in the Cloud area. Intro to CloudStack as a IaaS solution
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16278110" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sebastiengoasguen/apache-cloudstack-alpesjug" title="Apache CloudStack AlpesJUG" target="_blank">Apache CloudStack AlpesJUG</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sebastiengoasguen" target="_blank">Sebastien Goasguen</a></strong> </div> |
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2
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Open Source and the Apache Software Foundation
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What, Why and How of OSS. Specifics of ASF and the Apache Way
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Chip ?
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3
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CloudStack features and components
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4
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Introduction to Server Virtualization
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5
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Xen hypervisor
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16753956" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/scale11x-virtualization-with-xen-and-xcp-16753956" title="Scale11x : Virtualization with Xen and XCP " target="_blank">Scale11x : Virtualization with Xen and XCP </a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr" target="_blank">Xen.org</a></strong> </div> |
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5 bis
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KVM virtualization
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Marcus ?
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6
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Enterprise Storage solutions
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Mike ?
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7
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Distributed Storage
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How does distributed storage related to CloudStack, use of Glusterfs, Ceph, Swift, Riak CS
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Wido / John Burwell / Edison ?
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16368419" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/WidodenHollander/ceph-storage-for-cloudstack" title="Ceph storage for CloudStack" target="_blank">Ceph storage for CloudStack</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/WidodenHollander" target="_blank">Wido den Hollander</a></strong> </div> |
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8
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Networking in CloudStack
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Basic, Advanced networking, VLANs setup, intro to SDN
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Chiradeep / Hugo / Geoff ?
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/15633847" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/chiradeep_v/networking-in-the-cloud-age-lisa-2012-tutorial" title="Networking in the Cloud Age (LISA 2012 Tutorial)" target="_blank">Networking in the Cloud Age (LISA 2012 Tutorial)</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/chiradeep_v" target="_blank">Chiradeep Vittal</a></strong> </div> |
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"Midterm"
At this stage, students understand what CloudStack does, the main components that are needed and the choices available to them. They start building their own cloud and start thinking about their end of the semester project . In a 2 day CloudStack bootcamp setting, students work in the evening to get CloudStack running and identify their topic of presentation for the next day (ok fine 3 days).
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9
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Hands-on CloudStack deployment with DevCloud
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Putting it all together with DevCloud, run CloudStack on laptop, compile CloudStack from source
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Prasanna ?
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/17005519" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sebastiengoasguen/devcloud-and-cloudmonkey" title="DevCloud and CloudMonkey" target="_blank">DevCloud and CloudMonkey</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sebastiengoasguen" target="_blank">Sebastien Goasguen</a></strong> </div> |
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10
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REST Web Services and Query APIs
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Introduction to REST and Query APIs, review EC2 API and CloudStack API. Demonstrate various clients (e.g CloudMonkey). Show how to interact with CloudStack, how to make a request, how it maps with EC2 etc
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Rohit ?
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11
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Version Control and how to contribute
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Basics of version control in software engineering, getting started with github and submit your first patch to CloudStack. A second part could cover advanced version control: reverts, tagging, merging, bisecting etc
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Sebastien ?
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16758986" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sebastiengoasguen/git-101-for-cloudstack" title="Git 101 for CloudStack" target="_blank">Git 101 for CloudStack</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sebastiengoasguen" target="_blank">Sebastien Goasguen</a></strong> </div> |
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12
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CloudStack software architecture
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Describe the CloudStack architecture, go through setting up a development environment. More in depth than the slides showed on the right. Setup eclipse:
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and cover the main components of the orchestration and the plugins.
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/12781275" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack/cloudstack-architecture" title="CloudStack Architecture" target="_blank">CloudStack Architecture</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack" target="_blank">CloudStack - Open Source Cloud Computing Project</a></strong> </div> |
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13
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Writing a Plug in
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Walk through of how to write a plugin, e.g Nicira Plugin
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Alex
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/15487272" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/buildacloud/orchestration-provisioning" title="Orchestration & provisioning" target="_blank">Orchestration & provisioning</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/buildacloud" target="_blank">buildacloud</a></strong> </div> |
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14
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Case Study #1
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A company that has deployed CloudStack in production presents its use case with technical details
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16306165" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/noaresare/bacd-spotify-widescreen-for-slideshare" title="Cloudstack at Spotify" target="_blank">Cloudstack at Spotify</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/noaresare" target="_blank">Noa Resare</a></strong> </div> |
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15
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Case Study #2
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A company that has deployed CloudStack in production presents its use case with technical details
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16
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Student Challenge
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Students present their own CloudStack work, deployment, new plugin, API use etc
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17
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Exam and informal certification
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A course without an exam is not a course, we wrap up with a multiple choice questionnaire and a nice diploma
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