Observability and diagnostics
- How to actually see what's happening inside the platform.
- Methodical diagnostics: where to look when something doesn't fit.
- Looking after the database and message bus that hold it all together.
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Intermediate level · OpenStack training for companies
Intermediate OpenStack
Intermediate OpenStack
Deploying is the easy part. Keeping OpenStack healthy, up to date and secure year after year is what separates amateur teams from professional ones. Three days to do exactly that, on the latest stable release.
Observability
Version upgrades
High availability
Ceph
Kolla-Ansible
OpenStack day 2
Security and hardening
Backup and DR
Private cloud in production
Observability
Version upgrades
High availability
Ceph
Kolla-Ansible
OpenStack day 2
Security and hardening
Backup and DR
Private cloud in production
[ 01 ]Why this course
Run OpenStack like a platform, not an experiment.
Running OpenStack in production is where most teams fall over: half-baked observability, fear of upgrades, improvised security, backups nobody has ever tested. This course teaches you to do it properly, following the official release cycle — with the real version upgrade done hands-on, not in slides.
It's the Intermediate level of SIXE's OpenStack training path. Natural next step after the Basic course, or a direct entry point if your team already runs their own OpenStack — in-house, inherited or post-migration.
[ 02 ]Who it's for · what you take home
For the team that already runs it and wants to do it right
It's for your team if…
- You already run an OpenStack cluster — your own, inherited or freshly migrated — and want to stop dreading upgrades and incidents.
- You're SREs or operators who need to bring proper observability, security and backups into the platform.
- You've completed the Basic course or have equivalent hands-on operations experience.
- You've never done a real version upgrade and now it's due. Or you did one once, in fear, and you'd rather not repeat that.
By the end, the cloud is healthy
- You have full platform observability and know how to diagnose problems methodically, service by service.
- You've run a real version upgrade hands-on — a skill barely any commercial training teaches this way.
- You know how to secure and harden the cloud: control-plane HA, encryption and sensible defaults.
- You've integrated Ceph as your storage backend and designed the backup and disaster-recovery strategy.
- You have the grounding to move on to the Advanced level — or to run in production with procedures, not heroics.
[ 03 ]Programme · 3 days
From deployed to run in production
Across three days you take the same cloud from "freshly built" to "properly run". The real version upgrade is the centrepiece of day two.
Real version upgrade and high availability
- The official release cycle and how to plan around it.
- Real version upgrade on your own lab.
- Control-plane high availability: what fails and how it behaves.
Ceph, security, backup and performance
- Integration with Ceph as your storage backend.
- Security and hardening: encryption, policies and sensible defaults.
- Backup strategy and disaster recovery.
- Performance: where to push when the cloud asks for more.
[ 04 ]Digital badge · Credly
Let people see what you can do
Intermediate level · Digital badge
Certification badge
When you finish, you get a digital badge, verifiable on Credly, backed by real lab hours and ready to share on LinkedIn in a single click.
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[ 05 ]Before · after
Find your path
Before · Basic level
See Basic course
Brush up the fundamentals
If you're arriving without prior OpenStack experience, the Basic course gets you ready to tackle Intermediate with confidence.
Next · Advanced level
See Advanced course
Design at scale
Once the cloud is running, it's time to scale it, automate it and get it ready for Kubernetes and GPU. That's where the Advanced level comes in — with the VMware migration piece for architects included.
[ 06 ]Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Do we need to have done the Basic course first?
Not necessarily. We assume hands-on experience running OpenStack at a basic level: projects, images, instances, networks and volumes. If you already run a cluster — your own, inherited or post-migration — you can jump straight in. If you're coming without that experience, start with the Basic course.
Is the version upgrade actually done, or just in theory?
It's done for real. In the lab you receive a cluster on the previous release and upgrade it on day two to the latest stable release, following the official cycle. It's the flagship lab of the course, and a skill barely any commercial training teaches hands-on.
Which version of OpenStack do you teach?
The latest stable release with an annual upgrade cycle — currently 2026.1 «Gazpacho». The lab starts on the previous release and finishes on the latest, so the upgrade is done on real data. If a new one ships before your course, we refresh the material at no extra cost.
Is Ceph covered properly or just mentioned?
It's covered properly as a storage backend: basic sizing and how to use it from OpenStack. This isn't a Ceph administration course — if you want to go deep on Ceph itself, we have a dedicated CEPH series that complements this course.
And after? Are there more courses?
Yes. This is the Intermediate level of the OpenStack path. It's followed by the Advanced level for architecture at scale, Kubernetes, GPU and VMware migration. Each level is booked separately.
Format, group size and price?
On-site or live remote, from 2 attendees, in English, Spanish or French. Pricing is per group and adjusts to length and language. Tell us your case and we'll get back to you with something concrete.
[ 07 ] Book the course
Take the leap to production
Tell us how many you are, in which language and when for. We come back with format, dates and instructor. You get something concrete back — not a generic quote.
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