Keystone & Glance (OpenStack authentication system and Image Service)

Course Summary

Keystone and Glance are foundational components of the OpenStack cloud platform. Keystone provides identity, authentication, and access management, while Glance offers image discovery, registration, and delivery services.

This course delivers a practical and conceptual understanding of how these services work together to support the secure and efficient deployment of virtual machines and cloud resources. Designed for system administrators and aspiring cloud professionals, this training focuses on deploying, configuring, and managing Keystone and Glance in real-world cloud environments.

Why Choose This Course

Authentication, authorization, and resource provisioning are critical to any cloud deployment. This course provides a deep dive into OpenStack’s security model, token-based authentication, and image handling, all with a Linux-first approach.

By choosing this course, you will:

• Learn from certified instructors with hands-on OpenStack experience

• Gain real-world insights into integrating Keystone and Glance with other OpenStack components

• Develop skills that are directly applicable to enterprise-grade private cloud projects

• Build confidence to secure, manage, and optimize access to OpenStack services

Who Should Enroll

This course is a great fit for:

• Linux administrators building or maintaining OpenStack environments

• Cloud engineers responsible for infrastructure authentication and image services

• DevOps professionals integrating secure identity services into cloud workflows

• IT teams moving toward private/hybrid cloud deployments using OpenStack

• Students or job seekers aiming to specialize in cloud computing technologies

What You Will Learn

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and core components of Keystone and Glance

• Set up and configure authentication domains, users, roles, and projects

• Manage service catalogs and API endpoints

• Secure communication using tokens and role-based access control (RBAC)

• Upload, share, and manage virtual machine images using Glance

• Integrate Keystone with Nova, Glance, Cinder, and Horizon

• Work with metadata, image formats (QCOW2, RAW), and image replication

• Troubleshoot authentication failures and image service issues

Skills You Will Gain

• Identity and access management in OpenStack

• Token lifecycle and role-based access configuration

• CLI and Horizon-based image operations

• Managing custom roles and policy overrides

• Securing multi-project OpenStack deployments

• Image lifecycle, versioning, and metadata management

• Service registration and endpoint mapping

Career Benefits

After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

• Act as an identity and image administrator in OpenStack environments

• Contribute to private cloud deployments and platform security management

• Qualify for cloud infrastructure roles with a focus on IaaS security and provisioning

• Prepare for OpenStack certification paths and hands-on job roles in the cloud domain

Take the First Step Toward Cloud Mastery

Whether you’re managing user identities, securing APIs, or distributing images across a cloud, this course empowers you to take control of OpenStack’s identity and image systems with clarity and confidence.