This course offers a comprehensive blend of hands-on experience and lectures, enabling students to deeply understand OpenStack architecture and operation. It covers both front-end and back-end components, providing insights into the actual functioning of OpenStack at the component level. Alongside a technical examination of the architecture, the course emphasizes practical skills through hands-on labs, where students administer an OpenStack data center, configure networks, create and manage virtual machines, and deploy services.

Additionally, students learn essential DevOps skills to leverage the software-defined infrastructure enabled by OpenStack, along with critical Linux skills necessary for practical CLI tasks.