kodestree’s RHCS Cloud Infrastructure training prepares you to run enterprise private clouds built on Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Across ten structured, lab-driven lessons, you’ll deploy compute, storage, and networking resources, automate deployments with Ansible and Heat, and troubleshoot live OpenStack environments – the same operational tasks assessed in the Red Hat EX210 performance-based exam. The course is delivered by practicing Red Hat-certified professionals, not slide-readers, so every concept is tied back to a real cloud-operations scenario.
Prerequisites
A quick check before you enroll – this course assumes you already have a working base in Linux and virtualization:
- Working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration, ideally at RHCSA level
- Basic familiarity with virtualization concepts (KVM) and general cloud terminology
- Some prior exposure to Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) installation or configuration is helpful, not mandatory
- Comfort with core OpenStack services – Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, Keystone, and Horizon – at a conceptual level
- Basic scripting/automation exposure, Ansible preferred
- A troubleshooting mindset for Linux and distributed systems
- Recommended (not required) prior training: CL110 – OpenStack Administration I and CL210 – OpenStack Administration II
Why Learn RHCS Cloud Infrastructure?
Private cloud never really left – it just changed jobs. As enterprises pull sensitive workloads and AI inference pipelines back from public cloud for cost, control, and data-residency reasons, teams that can actually run an OpenStack-based private cloud are back in demand. Red Hat itself has moved OpenStack’s control plane onto OpenShift with Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO), which means the skillset is evolving, not disappearing – organizations still need administrators who understand the underlying OpenStack services deeply, whichever platform they sit on. Earning the Red Hat Certified Specialist in Cloud Infrastructure credential also isn’t a dead end: it’s one of the recognized paths toward the Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) designation, so the certification keeps compounding in value as your career grows.
Course Objectives
By the end of this training, you should be able to confidently:
- Deploy, configure, and operate a functioning Red Hat OpenStack Platform cluster
- Manage the full lifecycle of compute, storage, and network resources in a private cloud
- Apply identity, access, and infrastructure security controls across OpenStack projects
- Automate repetitive cloud operations using Heat templates and Ansible
- Diagnose and resolve common OpenStack control-plane and workload issues
What You Will Learn
The curriculum takes you from control-plane basics to full production-style operations:
- Managing and backing up the OpenStack control plane, including starting/stopping an overcloud
- Securing infrastructure end-to-end, including file-integrity monitoring with AIDE
- Configuring identity management, domains, projects, and custom user roles
- Building and customizing images and flavors for application deployment
- Managing Ceph and Swift-based storage clusters
- Configuring Open Virtual Networking (OVN) and shared network resources
- Administering compute nodes, rebalancing workloads, and managing hyperconverged capacity
- Monitoring operations with the Service Telemetry Framework and reading service logs
- Writing Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT) and deploying load-balanced application stacks
- Tracing and troubleshooting stack events and common OpenStack failures
Who Is this Course For?
This training is built for people who already touch Linux or cloud infrastructure in their day job:
- Linux system administrators moving into cloud operations
- Cloud engineers already working with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- IT professionals responsible for enterprise private cloud environments
- DevOps engineers focused on infrastructure automation
- RHCSA/RHCE holders planning a path toward Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Tools You Will Work With
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) director
- Nova (compute), Neutron (networking), Cinder & Glance (storage/images)
- Keystone (identity) and Horizon (dashboard)
- Ceph Storage and Swift object storage
- Open Virtual Networking (OVN)
- Ansible for automation and application deployment
- Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT)
- Service Telemetry Framework for monitoring
Skills You Will Gain
Beyond the exam objectives, you’ll walk away with practical, resume-ready capability in:
- Private cloud infrastructure administration
- OpenStack networking, storage, and compute management
- Cloud automation and orchestration
- Infrastructure security and identity governance
- Root-cause troubleshooting on distributed cloud systems
Career Outcomes
Certified OpenStack professionals are consistently sought after for private-cloud and telecom-grade infrastructure roles, with roles such as:
- Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
- OpenStack Administrator
- Linux/Cloud Systems Administrator
- Private Cloud Operations Engineer
- DevOps / Automation Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure focus)
- Pathway roles toward Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Why Choose kodestree for This Training?
kodestree pairs the technical depth of an official-style curriculum with the flexibility and support most training vendors skip:
- Live, instructor-led sessions taught by practicing Red Hat-certified professionals
- Lab-first teaching approach mapped directly to real OpenStack operations
- Flexible weekday, weekend, and fast-track batch options
- 1-on-1 training option for personalized pacing
- 100% money-back guarantee and lifetime access to session recordings
