Tentative Syllabus:
Week |
Lecture Title |
Lecture Content |
Lecturer |
Slides |
Video |
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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 |
Mark Hinkle |
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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 |
Chip ? |
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3 |
CloudStack features and components |
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4 |
Introduction to Server Virtualization |
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5 |
Xen hypervisor |
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5 bis |
KVM virtualization |
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Marcus ? |
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6 |
Enterprise Storage solutions |
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Mike T |
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7 |
Distributed Storage |
How does distributed storage relates to CloudStack, use of Glusterfs, Ceph, Swift, Riak CS |
Wido / John Burwell / Edison ? |
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8 |
Networking in CloudStack |
Basic, Advanced networking, VLANs setup, intro to SDN |
Chiradeep / Hugo / Geoff ? . Background material: http://www.shapeblue.com/2013/01/07/understanding-cloudstacks-physical-networking-architecture/and http://www.shapeblue.com/2012/05/01/cloudstack-networking-considerations/ |
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9 |
VmWare and CloudStack in Corporate Environment Part 1 |
How to make use of your existing VmWare Environment with CloudStack in Corporate Environment with SharedNetwork Basic Zone |
Ilya |
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10 |
VmWare and CloudStack in Corporate Environment Part 2 |
How to make use of your existing VmWare Environment with CloudStack in Corporate Environment with SharedNetwork Advanced Zones Using VLANS |
Ilya |
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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).
11 |
Hands-on CloudStack deployment with DevCloud |
Putting it all together with DevCloud, run CloudStack on laptop, compile CloudStack from source |
Prasanna ? |
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Testing CloudStack 4.1 with DevCloud from sebastien goasguen on Vimeo. |
12 |
REST Web Services and Query APIs |
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 |
Rohit ? |
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13 |
Version Control and how to contribute |
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 |
Sebastien ? |
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14 |
CloudStack software architecture |
Describe the CloudStack architecture, go through setting up a development environment. More in depth than the slides showed on the right. Setup eclipse: http://markmail.org/thread/pgvwzvtohabsaqwiand cover the main components of the orchestration and the plugins. |
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15 |
Writing a Plug in |
Walk through of how to write a plugin, e.g Nicira Plugin |
Alex |
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16 |
Case Study #1 |
A company that has deployed CloudStack in production presents its use case with technical details |
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17 |
Case Study #2 |
A company that has deployed CloudStack in production presents its use case with technical details |
Roland Kuipers, Schuberg Philis |
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18 |
Student Challenge |
Students present their own CloudStack work, deployment, new plugin, API use etc |
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19 |
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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Outcome
Students finish the course with a clear understanding of CloudStack, how to set it up, how to contribute to it and how it is used in industry.