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

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

Participants will learn to:

• 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