Red Hat OpenShift Administration III: Scaling Deployments in the Enterprise Virtual Training in Republic of the Philippines

• Complete Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster (DO280) and become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
• Complete Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) and become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator.
• Recommended, but not required: become a Red Hat Certified Systems Engineer or a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation. Basic knowledge about writing and running Ansible playbooks is desired.

Please note: In order to provision you with your courseware and lab access for this course QA must share several items of basic personal information with our partner (usually your full name and email address). For more information on this please visit our QA Partner data sharing page. If you have any questions or concerns please contact your QA account manager.

This course builds upon the essential skills required to configure and manage an OpenShift 4.x cluster, teaching the enhanced skills needed to operate production environments at scale, including:

• Automating Day 2 tasks to establish production clusters with higher performance and availability.
• Integrating OpenShift with enterprise authentication, storage, CI/CD, and GitOps systems to improve productivity of IT operations and compliance with organization’s standards.
• Troubleshooting techniques to identify issues with cluster operators and compute capacity.

Impact on the organization

This course supports IT operations teams that are in the prepare and expand stages of their Container Adoption Journey. The curriculum enables companies to innovate faster, scale based on customer demand, and proactively manage a growing number of OpenShift clusters that host cloud-native and cloud-compatible applications.

Move from Kubernetes to OpenShift

Demonstrate that OpenShift is Kubernetes by deploying Kubernetes-native applications on OpenShift.

Introduce automation on OpenShift

Automate OpenShift administration tasks using bash scripts and Ansible playbooks.

Manage operators with OpenShift

Deploy Kubernetes Operators and configure OpenShift cluster operators.

Implement GitOps with Jenkins

Implement a GitOps workflow using containerized Jenkins to administer an OpenShift cluster.

Configure enterprise authentication

Integrate OpenShift with enterprise identity providers.

Configure trusted TLS certificates

Configure OpenShift with trusted TLS certificates for external access to cluster services and applications.

Configure dedicated node pools

Configure a subset of the cluster nodes for special workloads.

Configure persistent storage

Configure storage providers and storage classes to ensure cluster user access to persistent storage.

Manage cluster monitoring and metrics

Configure and manage the OpenShift monitoring stack.

Provision and inspect cluster logging

Deploy, query, and troubleshoot cluster-wide logging.

Recover failed worker nodes

Inspect, troubleshoot, and remediate worker nodes in a variety of failure scenarios.

Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves. For questions or confirmation on a specific objective or topic, contact one of our training specialists.