By Andrey Markelov#

Certified OpenStack Administrator Study Guide: Get Everything You Need for the COA Exam

Apress · Certification Study Companion Series · 2nd ed. · XIII, 254 pages · Softcover ISBN 978-1-4842-8803-0 · eBook ISBN 978-1-4842-8804-7

This updated edition helps you prepare for the Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam on the Yoga release from the Open Infrastructure Foundation. It explains how to work with the modern OpenStack IaaS cloud platform and covers the practical skills tested on the exam.

Exercises have been rewritten for current exam tooling (CLI and Horizon). The book maps to the exam objectives, includes review questions with answers, and remains useful as a reference after certification.

What you will learn

  • Understand the components that make up the cloud
  • Install OpenStack from Red Hat, Canonical, or community distributions
  • Run OpenStack in a virtual test environment
  • Work with identity, image, compute, networking, object storage, and block storage services
  • Troubleshoot the main OpenStack services
  • Know where to find documentation for further work with OpenStack

Who this book is for

Cloud and Linux engineers preparing for the COA exam.

Table of contents

  1. Getting Started
  2. How to Build Your Own Virtual Test Environment
  3. OpenStack APIs
  4. Identity Management
  5. Image Management
  6. OpenStack Networking
  7. OpenStack Compute
  8. OpenStack Object Storage
  9. Block Storage
  10. Troubleshooting
  11. Conclusion

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