Red Hat OpenShift Administration III: Scaling Kubernetes Deployments in the Enterprise

• 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:
• Configure pools of cluster nodes with special configurations, and ensure that only the workloads that are intended for those pools are scheduled on those nodes.
• Configure enterprise authentication and group management with legacy LDAP and cloud-native OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity management systems.
• Deploy, manage, and query OpenShift logging and configure log forwarding to external log aggregators and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.
• Automate cluster configuration and application deployment by using OpenShift GitOps.
• Troubleshoot application and cluster performance and availability issues by using OpenShift Monitoring.
• Configure and automate application-level backups using OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP).

Course summary

• Manage OpenShift cluster operators and add operators.
• Implement GitOps workflows using OpenShift GitOps operator.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise authentication.
• Query and visualize cluster-wide logs, metrics, and alerts.
• Backup and restore application settings and data with OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP).
• Manage machine pools and machine configurations.

Primary: Platform Engineers, System Administrators, Cloud Administrators, and other infrastructure-related IT roles who are responsible for implementing and managing infrastructure for applications. Secondary: Enterprise Architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), DevOps Engineers, and other application-related IT roles who are responsible for designing infrastructure for applications.
 

• 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.
Technology requirements
• This course requires internet access to access the cloud-based classroom environment that provides an OpenShift cluster and a remote administrator’s workstation.

Authentication and Identity Management

• Configure OpenShift clusters to authenticate by using LDAP and OIDC enterprise identity systems and to recognize groups that those systems define.

Backup, Restore, and Migration of Applications with OADP

• Backup and restore application settings and data with OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP).

Cluster Partitioning

• Configure a subset of cluster nodes to be dedicated to a type of workload.

Pod Scheduling

• Configure workloads to run on a dedicated set of cluster nodes and prevent other workloads from using those cluster nodes.

OpenShift GitOps

• Deploy OpenShift GitOps for managing clusters and applications.

OpenShift Monitoring

• Troubleshoot performance and availability issues with applications and clusters.

OpenShift Logging

• Deploy OpenShift logging and query log entries from workloads and cluster nodes.