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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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1 | Introduction to Cloud Computing and CloudStack | 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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2 | Open Source and the Apache Software Foundation | What, Why and How of OSS. Specifics of ASF and the Apache Way |
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3 | CloudStack features and components |
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4 | Introduction to Server Virtualization |
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5 | Xen and KVM configuration |
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6 | Enterprise Storage solutions |
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7 | Distributed Storage | How does distributed storage related to CloudStack, use of Glusterfs, Ceph, Swift, Riak CS |
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8 | Networking in CloudStack | Basic, Advanced networking, VLANs setup, intro to SDN |
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9 | Hands-on CloudStack deployment with DevCloud | Putting it all together with DevCloud, run CloudStack on laptop, compile CloudStack from source |
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10 | REST Web Services and Query APIs | Introduction to REST and Query APIs, review EC2 API and CloudStack API. Demonstrate various clients (e.g CloudMonkey) |
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11 | Version Control and how to contribute |
| Basics of version control in software engineering, getting started with github and submit your first patch to CloudStack | Sebastien ? |
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12 | CloudStack software architecture | Describe the CloudStack architecture, go through setting up a development environment |
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13 | Writing a Plug in | Walk through of how to write a plugin, e.g Nicira Plugin |
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14 | Case Study #1 | A company that has deployed CloudStack in production presents its use case with technical details |
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15 | Case Study #2 | A company that has deployed CloudStack in production presents its use case with technical details |
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16 | Student Challenge | Students present their own CloudStack work, deployment, new plugin, API use etc |
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17 | Exam and informal certification | 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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