Red Hat OpenShift Administration III: Scaling Deployments in the Enterprise (DO380) Training

This training builds the skills to plan, implement, and manage OpenShift clusters at enterprise scale.

By the end of this training, you will have gained knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• Scale clusters to meet growing and specialized workload demands

• Ensure reliability, performance, and availability

• Implement GitOps, enterprise identity, monitoring, logging, and data protection practices

• DO280: Red Hat OpenShift Administration II (and Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration)

• RH134: Red Hat System Administration II (and RHCSA certification)

• Recommended: Red Hat Certified Engineer or Specialist in Ansible Automation (basic Ansible playbook knowledge desired)

• Primary: Platform Engineers, System Administrators, Cloud Administrators, and IT roles responsible for infrastructure management

• Secondary: Enterprise Architects, SREs, DevOps Engineers, and IT roles designing application infrastructure

• Cluster Operators: Manage OpenShift operators and add-ons

• GitOps: Implement workflows with OpenShift GitOps operator

• Enterprise Authentication: Integrate LDAP and OIDC systems

• Monitoring & Logging: Query logs, metrics, and alerts cluster-wide

• Data Protection: Backup & restore with OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP)

• Machine Management: Manage machine pools & configurations

• Pod Scheduling: Assign workloads to specific node groups

Impact on the Organization

• Supports IT teams in the prepare & expand stages of their container adoption journey

• Enables faster innovation and scalability

• Proactively manages growing OpenShift clusters hosting cloud-native apps

• Ensures reliability and operational efficiency

Impact on the Individual

• Configure special machine pools and workload isolation

• Integrate enterprise authentication with LDAP and OIDC

• Deploy and query OpenShift logging with log forwarding to SIEM systems

• Automate deployments and configuration with GitOps

• Troubleshoot performance & availability with OpenShift Monitoring

• Perform application-level backups with OADP

• Authentication & Identity: LDAP & OIDC integration

• Backup & Restore: Use OADP for apps & data protection

• Cluster Partitioning: Dedicate nodes for specific workloads

• Pod Scheduling: Restrict workloads to assigned nodes

• OpenShift GitOps: Automate app and cluster management

• Monitoring: Troubleshoot performance & availability

• Logging: Deploy logging, query logs, forward to external systems