CloudStack® Training

10/05/2021 - 11/05/2021

CloudStack Online Bootcamp Training EUROPE

17/05/2021 - 21/05/2021

CloudStack Online Bootcamp Training NORTH AMERICA

Apache CloudStack Bootcamp Training Course

These fast paced training courses will give you the core skills needed to build and operate your CloudStack® cloud. Our instructors all have real-world CloudStack implementation experience and are regular contributors to the Apache CloudStack project. The courses are a combination of instructor led learning and hands-on labs.

Online Courses

Our online, instructor led, courses are run over a 5 day period (NORTH AMERICA) or a 2 day period (EUROPE) at the following times:

NORTH AMERICA

– US West 9am–12pm
– US East 12pm–3pm

EUROPE

– UK 9am – 4.30pm
– Central Europe 10am – 5.30pm
– Eastern Europe 11am – 6.30pm

Please ensure that you choose the correct region course when booking.

All of our courses are limited to 12 students to ensure everyone gets thorough attention. All demonstrations, training and labs are untaken in a self-contained virtualised environment hosted on students laptops using Oracle VirtualBox.

ShapeBlue are the leading independent integrator of Apache Cloudstack.

Course Content

What is CloudStack?
The CloudStack UI
CloudStack Architecture
The CloudStack networking models
Basic mode
Security Groups
Advanced mode
Physical Networks
System VM’s (including the virtual router)
Using VMware with CloudStack
Using XenServer with CloudStack
Adding Zones, Pods, Clusters and Hosts
Primary Storage
Secondary Storage
Creating Service Offerings
Compute
Disk
Network

System VM’s (including the virtual router)
Adding Zones, Pods, Clusters and Hosts
Domains, Accounts and Users
Limits
Notifications and Thresholds
Allocation Algorithms
VM Deployment and Management
Managing Volumes
Managing Templates & ISOs
Snapshots
Virtual Private Cloud
Working with the CloudStack API
Troubleshooting
Working with the CloudStack database
The Apache CloudStack community
Domains, Accounts and Users
Limits
Notifications and Thresholds

The course is limited to 12 students. All course materials will be provided. Labs are untaken in a self-contained virtualised environment on the students own PC.

Delegate Experience and Technical Ability

Students should have the following skills in order to attend this course:

Experience using the Linux CLI
General experience of networking and virtualization

Laptop Requirements (for online courses)

To participate in our hands-on labs, we ask students to bring a laptop that meets the following requirements:

Windows, MAC or Linux Laptop
16GB RAM recommended (8GB minimum)
40 GB Free Disk Space
x64 Architecture with Hardware Virtualisation enabled
64Bit OS
Web Browser – IE, Chrome, Safari or Firefox are suitable
Oracle VirtualBox version 5.2 (NOT the latest version)
SSH client such as Putty, Cygwin or native OSX Terminal are all suitable
A PDF reader for displaying the lab guides
Ability to join online meeting and install any necessary software (usually Slack)
Headphones and Microphone to interact with instructor and fellow students
Free of any Corporate IT Polices which would prevent any of the above functioning correctly

As the course is on-line you should ensure the location from which you intend to join the course has a strong, stable internet connection. We cannot take any responsibility for local network or comms failure.

If you are unable to participate in a course you have booked to attend, and if there is space available, we will try to book you onto the next course.