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

This online, instructor led, course is run over a 4-5 day period at the following times: 

• US West 9am – 12pm
• US East 12pm – 3pm
• UK 5pm – 8pm
• Europe 6pm – 9pm

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 deployed on delegates own laptops. 

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  

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
• 40 GB Free Disk Space
• x64 Architecture with Hardware Virtualisation enabled
• 64Bit OS
• Web Browser – IE, Chrome, Safari or Firefox are suitable
• Latest version of Oracle VirtualBox
• 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 Skype for Business)
• 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.