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Revision as of 07:22, 3 March 2019
Contents
Introduction
The description of the entire LPIC-3 programme is listed here.
Version Information
These objectives are version 2.0.0.
There is also a summary and detailed information on the changes from version 1.0 to 2.0 of the objectives.
The version 1.x objectives can be found here.
Translations of Objectives
The following translations of the objectives are available on this wiki:
Objectives
Topic 341: Virtualization
341.1 Virtualization Concepts and Theory (weight: 6)
| Weight | 6 |
| Description | Candidates should know and understand the general concepts, theory and terminology of Virtualization. This includes Xen, KVM and libvirt terminology. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Terminology
- Pros and Cons of Virtualization
- Variations of Virtual Machine Monitors
- Migration of Physical to Virtual Machines
- Migration of Virtual Machines between Host systems
- Cloud Computing
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- Hypervisor
- Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM)
- Paravirtualization (PV)
- Container Virtualization
- Emulation and Simulation
- CPU flags
- /proc/cpuinfo
- Migration (P2V, V2V)
- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
341.2 Xen (weight: 6)
| Weight | 6 |
| Description | Candidates should be able to install, configure, maintain, migrate and troubleshoot Xen installations. The focus is on Xen version 4.x. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Xen architecture, networking and storage
- Xen configuration
- Xen utilities
- Troubleshooting Xen installations
- Awareness of XAPI
- Awareness of XenStore
- Awareness of Xen Boot Parameters
- Awareness of the xm utility
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- Domain0 (Dom0), DomainU (DomU)
- PV-DomU, HVM-DomU
- /etc/xen/
- xl
- xl.cfg
- xl.conf
- xentop
341.3 KVM (weight: 6)
| Weight | 6 |
| Description | Candidates should be able to install, configure, maintain, migrate and troubleshoot KVM installations. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- KVM architecture, including networking and storage
- KVM configuration parameters
- KVM utilities
- Troubleshooting KVM installations
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- Kernel modules: kvm, kvm-intel and kvm-amd
- /dev/kvm
- kvm
- KVM monitor
- qemu
- qemu-img
341.4 Libvirt Virtual Machine Management (weight: 9)
| Weight | 9 |
| Description | Candidates should be able to manage virtualization hosts and virtual machines (‘libvirt domains’) using libvirt and related tools. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand the architecture of libvirt
- Manage libvirt connections and nodes
- Create and manage KVM and Xen domains, including snapshots
- Manage and analyze resource consumption of domains
- Create and manage storage pools and volumes
- Create and manage virtual networks
- Migrate domains between nodes
- Understand how libvirt interacts with Xen and KVM
- Understand libvirt XML configuration files
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- libvirtd
- /etc/libvirt/
- virsh (including relevant subcommands)
341.5 Cloud Management Tools (weight: 2)
| Weight | 2 |
| Description | Candidates should have basic feature knowledge of commonly available cloud management tools. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Basic feature knowledge of OpenStack and CloudStack
- Awareness of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- OpenStack
- CloudStack
- Eucalyptus
- OpenNebula
Topic 342: Container Virtualization
342.1 Container Virtualization Concepts (weight: 6)
| Weight | 6 |
| Description | Candidates should understand the concept of container virtualization. This includes understanding the Linux components used to implement container virtualization as well as using standard Linux tools to troubleshoot these components. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand the concepts of system and application container
- Understand and analyze kernel namespaces
- Understand and analyze control groups
- Understand and analyze capabilities
- Understand the role of seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor for container virtualization
- Understand how LXC and Docker leverage namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp and MAC
- Awareness of other container virtualization approaches in Linux and other free operating systems, such as rkt, OpenVZ, systemd-nspawn or BSD Jails
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- nsenter
- unshare
- capsh
- /sys/fs/cgroups
- /proc/[0-9]+/ns
- /proc/[0-9]+/status
342.2 LXC (weight: 5)
| Weight | 5 |
| Description | Candidates should be able to use system containers using LXC and LXD. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand the architecture of LXC and LXD
- Manage LXC containers based on existing images using LXD, including networking and storage
- Configure LXC container properties
- Limit LXC container resource usage
- Use LXD profiles
- Understand LXC images
- Awareness of traditional LXC tools
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- lxd
- lxc (including relevant subcommands)
342.3 Docker (weight: 8)
| Weight | 8 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
342.4 Container Orchestration Platforms (weight: 2)
| Weight | 2 |
| Description | Candidates should understand the importance of container orchestration and the key concepts Docker Swarm and Kubernetes provide to implement container orchestration. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand the relevance of container orchestration
Understand the key concepts of Docker Compose and Docker Swarm
Understand the key concepts of Kubernetes and Helm
Awareness of OpenShift, Rancher and Mesosphere DC/OS
Topic 343: VM Deployment and Provisioning
343.1 Cloud Management Tools (weight: 2)
| Weight | 2 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
343.2 Packer (weight: 2)
| Weight | 2 |
| Description | Candidates should be able to use Packer to create system images. This includes running Packer in various public and private cloud environments as well as building container images for LXC/LXD. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand the functionality and features of Packer
- Create and maintain template files
- Build images from template files using different builders
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- packer
343.3 cloud-init (weight: 3)
| Weight | 3 |
| Description | Candidates should able to use cloud-init to configure virtual machines created from standardized images. This includes adjust virtual machines to match their available hardware resources, specifically, disk space and volumes. Additionally, candidates should be able to configure instances to allow secure SSH logins and install a specific set of software packages. Furthermore, candidates should be able to create new system images with cloud-init support. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understanding the features and concepts of cloud-init, including user-data, initializing and configuring cloud-init
- Use cloud-init to create, resize and mount file systems, configure user accounts, including login credentials such as SSH keys and install software packages from the distribution’s repository
- Integrate cloud-init into own system images
- Use config drive datasource for testing
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- cloud-init
- user-data
- /var/lib/cloud/
343.4 Vagrant (weight: 3)
| Weight | 3 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
