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Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster
Configure and manage OpenShift clusters to maintain security and reliability across multiple applications and development teams. Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes...
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Overview
Configure and manage OpenShift clusters to maintain security and reliability across multiple applications and development teams. Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster (DO280) prepares OpenShift Cluster Administrators to perform daily administration tasks on clusters that host applications provided by internal teams and external vendors, enable self-service for cluster users with different roles, and deploy applications that require special permissions such as such as CI/CD tooling, performance monitoring, and security scanners. This course focuses on configuring multi-tenancy and security features of OpenShift as well as managing OpenShift add-ons based on operators. The skills you learn in this course can be applied using all versions of OpenShift, including Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), and OpenShift Container Platform. This course is based on Red Hat® OpenShift® 4.12.
Skills Gained
- Deploying packaged applications using manifests, templates, kustomize, and helm.
- Configuring authentication and authorization for users and applications.
- Protecting network traffic with network policies and exposing applications with proper network access.
- Deploying and managing applications using resources manifests.
- Enabling developer self-service of application projects.
- Managing OpenShift cluster updates and Kubernetes operator updates.
Who Can Benefit
- System and Software Architects interested in understanding the features and functionality of an OpenShift cluster.
- System Administrators interested in the ongoing management of clusters and containerized applications.
- Cluster Operators interested in managing access to cluster resources by users and applications.
- Site Reliability Engineers interested in the ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting of a cluster.
Prerequisites
- Complete Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift (DO180), or demonstrate equivalent experience with containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift fundamentals.
- Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration experience.
- Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
Course Details
Outline for this course
- Describe the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- Verify the health of a cluster
- Configure authentication and authorization
- Configure application security
- Configure OpenShift networking for applications
- Control pod scheduling
- Describe cluster updates
- Manage a cluster with the web console
Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- List the features and describe the architecture of the Openshift Container Platform.
Install OpenShift Container Platform
- Install OpenShift and configure the cluster.
Explore OpenShift networking concepts
- Describe and explore OpenShift networking concepts.
Execute commands
- Execute commands using the command-line interface.
Manage OpenShift resources
- Control access to OpenShift resources.
Allocate persistent storage
- Implement persistent storage.
Manage application deployments
- Manipulate resources to manage deployed applications.
Metrics subsystem
- Install and configure the metrics-gathering system.
Manage and monitor
- Manage and monitor OpenShift resources and software.
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Reviews
Good training material and good instruction. More time needs to be provided for the lab work.
the course is good, covers many aspects, wish the lab is a little bit more in depth
Provided good amount of material and a great instructor to teach the material.
Good training. A lot to take in for the short amount of time we have though
It was very informative and covered all the required materials along with handson labs for practice.
