Red Hat OpenShift Administration I: Operating a Production Cluster Training

• System administrators and platform operators who are interested in managing OpenShift clusters and containerized applications.
• Site Reliability Engineers who are interested in maintaining and troubleshooting containerized applications on Kubernetes.
• System and software architects who are interested in learning and using the features and functions of an OpenShift cluster.
• Developers and Site Reliability Engineers that are new to container technology should enroll in Red Hat OpenShift Development I: Introduction to Containers with Podman (DO188).

• Managing OpenShift clusters from the command-line interface and from the web console.
• Troubleshooting network connectivity between applications inside and outside an OpenShift cluster.
• Connecting Kubernetes workloads to storage for application data.
• Configuring Kubernetes workloads for high availability and reliability.
• Managing updates to container images, settings, and Kubernetes manifests of an application.

Introduction to Kubernetes and OpenShift

Identify the main Kubernetes cluster services and OpenShift platform services, and monitor them from the web console.

Kubernetes and OpenShift Command-Line Interfaces and APIs

Access an OpenShift cluster from the command line, and query its Kubernetes API resources to assess the health of a cluster.

Run Applications as Containers and Pods

Run and troubleshoot containerized applications as unmanaged Kubernetes pods.

Deploy Managed and Networked Applications on Kubernetes

Deploy applications and expose them to network access from inside and outside a Kubernetes cluster.

Manage Storage for Application Configuration and Data

Externalize application configurations in Kubernetes resources, and provision storage volumes for persistent data files.

Configure Applications for Reliability

Configure applications to work with Kubernetes for high availability and resilience.

Manage Application Updates

Manage reproducible application updates and rollbacks of code and configurations.