Build real Red Hat OpenStack skills with igmGuru's live-instructor RHCS Cloud Infrastructure training, covering hands-on labs, EX210 exam readiness, and complete career support.
✅ Level – Beginner to Intermediate ✅ 30-Hour Instructor-Led Live Training ✅ 100% Hands-On RHOSP & OpenStack Labs ✅ EX210 Certification Exam Preparation ✅ Practical Networking, Storage & Automation Labs ✅ Experienced Red Hat Certified Trainers
igmGuru'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.
A quick check before you enroll - this course assumes you already have a working base in Linux and virtualization:
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.
By the end of this training, you should be able to confidently:
The curriculum takes you from control-plane basics to full production-style operations:
This training is built for people who already touch Linux or cloud infrastructure in their day job:
Beyond the exam objectives, you'll walk away with practical, resume-ready capability in:
Certified OpenStack professionals are consistently sought after for private-cloud and telecom-grade infrastructure roles, with roles such as:
igmGuru pairs the technical depth of an official-style curriculum with the flexibility and support most training vendors skip:
| Exam Code | EX210 |
|---|---|
| Exam Format | Performance-based, hands-on lab exam on a live Red Hat OpenStack environment |
| Duration | 4 hours |
| Prerequisite | Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or equivalent OpenStack experience |
| Recommended Prior Training | CL110 – OpenStack Administration I, CL210 – OpenStack Administration II |
| Retake Policy | One retake included per Red Hat's standard policy |
| Counts Toward | Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) |
Certification requirements and exam versions are updated periodically by Red Hat to match the current OpenStack Platform release — always confirm the latest objectives on Red Hat's official training page before scheduling your exam.
RHCSA validates general Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration skills, while the RHCS Cloud Infrastructure credential (EX210) goes further, testing your ability to deploy, secure, and troubleshoot an entire Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment. RHCSA is effectively the entry ticket; this certification proves cloud-specific operational depth.
The training fee covers the live instructor-led sessions, labs, and recordings. Exam vouchers are billed separately through Red Hat's own certification portal - our team can guide you through scheduling once you're exam-ready.
Pay varies by region, employer, and experience, but OpenStack-focused roles in the US commonly range from roughly $98,000 to over $172,000 a year for engineers, with senior private-cloud and architecture roles going considerably higher. Certification alone won't set your salary, but it's a consistent differentiator in interviews for these roles.
Red Hat certifications are tied to the product version they're tested against and don't expire in the way some vendor certifications do, but they can become outdated as OpenStack releases evolve. Many professionals recertify or add newer credentials (like RHOSO-aligned training) as Red Hat's platform roadmap shifts.
Yes, as long as you're comfortable with core RHEL administration. The course is built to take you from conceptual OpenStack knowledge into hands-on, lab-driven practice, so prior production OpenStack experience helps but isn't a hard requirement.
OpenStack Platform manages infrastructure-as-a-service — virtual machines, storage, and networking for a private cloud. OpenShift is a Kubernetes-based container platform. Red Hat now runs OpenStack's control plane on top of OpenShift (RHOSO), so understanding both is increasingly valuable, but this course focuses specifically on OpenStack administration skills.
Yes. You can request a live demo session to sit in on a real class, meet the trainer, and evaluate the teaching style before committing to a batch.
