Deployment and administration of Microcloud with Canonical

🎯 Target Audience

• System administrators and IT professionals interested in container and microcloud solutions.
• DevOps engineers who want to implement and manage MicroCloud environments with LXD.

🔍 Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of Linux system administration.
• Familiarity with container and virtualization concepts.

📚 Course Description

In the MicroCloud Deployment and Administration with LXD Course, you will learn how to deploy, configure, and manage MicroCloud clusters using LXD. The course covers everything from instance creation and management to network and storage integration, and the setup of MicroCloud clusters.

🧠 What You Will Learn

• Create and manage instances with LXD.
• Integrate networks and storage in a MicroCloud environment.
• Configure and administer a MicroCloud cluster.

📋 Course Outline

• MicroCloud Setup and Deployment
  • Preparing the MicroCloud environment.
  • Installing and configuring LXD.
• Container Management with LXD
  • Creating and managing containers.
  • Configuring profiles and networks for containers.
• Deployment and Management of LXD Instances
  • Creating and managing LXD instances.
  • Instance migration.
• Network and Storage Integration
  • Configuring networks for containers.
  • Managing local and remote storage.
  • Creating 4 VMs on a network with local storage and integrated microceph.
  • Deploying VMs in a private network.
  • Integrating and configuring Ceph for storage.
• Cluster Administration and Monitoring
  • Bootstrapping the cluster.
  • Initializing and configuring the LXD cluster.
  • Managing and monitoring the cluster.