Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Configuring a Production Cluster (DO280)

H8PJ6S

Course ID

H8PJ6S

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Overview

This course teaches you how 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 also focuses on configuring multi-tenancy and security features of OpenShift, as well as managing OpenShift add-ons based on operators.


The skills learned in this course apply to all versions of OpenShift, including Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and OpenShift Container Platform.

Course ID

H8PJ6S

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT/VILT

  • Audience

    This course is ideal for platform administrators, system administrators, cloud administrators, and other infrastructure-related IT professionals who are responsible for managing and maintaining infrastructure for applications. It is also suitable for enterprise architects, site reliability engineers, DevOps engineers, and other application-related IT professionals who are responsible for designing infrastructure for applications.

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Deploy packaged applications using manifests, templates, customize, and helm
    • Configure authentication and authorization for users and applications
    • Protect network traffic with network policies and exposing applications with proper network access
    • Deploy and manage applications using resources manifests
    • Enable developer self-service of application projects
    • Manage OpenShift cluster updates and Kubernetes operator updates
  • Certifications and related exams

    This course prepares you for the following certification exam:

    • Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator
  • Course outline

Module 1: Declarative Resource Management

  • Deploy and update applications from resource manifests that are parameterized for different target environments

Module 2: Deploy Packaged Applications

  • Deploy and update applications from resource manifests that are packaged for sharing and distribution

Module 3: Authentication and Authorization

  • Configure authentication with the HTPasswd identity provider and assign roles to users and groups

Module 4: Network Security

  • Protect network traffic between applications inside and outside the cluster

Module 5: Expose Non-HTTP/SNI Applications

  • Expose applications to external access without using an Ingress controller

Module 6: Enable Developer Self-Service

  • Configure clusters for safe self-service by developers from multiple teams and disallow self-service if projects toned to be provisioned by operations staff

Module 7: Manage Kubernetes Operators

  • Install and update Operators that are managed by the Operator Lifecycle Manager and by the Cluster Version Operator

Module 8: Application Security

  • Run applications that require elevated or special privileges from the host operating system or Kubernetes

Module 9: OpenShift Updates

  • Update an OpenShift cluster and minimize disruption to deployed applications

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