DO280 Red Hat OpenShift Administration I

DO280 Red Hat OpenShift Administration II - Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster

Course description

Create, configure, manage, and troubleshoot OpenShift clusters

Red Hat OpenShift Administration I (DO280) teaches you how to install and administer the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform . This hands-on, lab-based course shows you how to install, configure, and manage OpenShift clusters and deploy sample applications to further understand how developers will use the platform.

This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.0 and Openshift Container Platform 4.2.

OpenShift is a containerized application platform that allows enterprises to manage container deployments and scale their applications using Kubernetes. OpenShift provides predefined application environments and builds upon Kubernetes to provide support for DevOps principles such as reduced time to market, infrastructure-as-code, continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (CD).

Course summary

  • Describe the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster installation and update processes
  • Troubleshoot application deployments
  • Configure authentication using local users
  • Control access to projects using role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Configure service and container networking
  • Configure pod scheduling using labels and selectors
  • Limit compute resource usage
  • Scale a cluster
  • Monitor cluster events and alerts

Audience for this course

This course is designed for system administrators, system architects, and developers who want to install and configure Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

  • System and Software Architects interested in understanding features and functionality of an OpenShift cluster.
  • System Administrators interested in the initial establishment of a cluster.
  • Cluster Operators interested in the ongoing maintenance of a cluster.
  • Site Reliability Engineers interested in the ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting of a cluster.

Technology considerations

  • Internet access is required.

Prerequisites for this course

Outline for this course

Describe the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Learn the components of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and how they interact.
Verify a Cluster
Verify a cluster is installed and healthy.
Configure Authentication
Configure authentication with an identity provider.
Control Access to OpenShift Resources
Define and apply role-based access controls and protect sensitive information with secrets.
Configure OpenShift Networking Components
Identify the components of OpenShift software-defined networking and configure some of the components.
Control Pod Scheduling
Control which nodes a pod runs on.
Scale an OpenShift Cluster
Control the size of an OpenShift cluster.
Perform Cluster Updates
Describe how to perform a cluster update.
Manage the Cluster with the Web Console
Manage the OpenShift cluster using the web console.
Comprehensive Review
Verify, manage, and troubleshoot an OpenShift cluster for enterprise use.

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to install, configure, and manage the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to deploy containerized applications that are highly available, resilient, and scalable. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform enables rapid application development and deployment, as well as portability of an application across environments. The platform also offers simplified application scaling, administration, and maintenance of adapted or cloud-native applications.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

After completing this course, you should be able to demonstrate the skills to establish a new OpenShift cluster, perform initial configuration of the cluster, and manage the cluster on a day-to-day basis. One major focus of the course is troubleshooting common problems that will be encountered beyond day one.

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