Container Adoption Boot Camp

As a result of attending this course, you should be able to configure and manage a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 clusters at scale, including:

• Configure security controls for users, applications, and networking.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise authentication, storage, CI/CD, and GitOps systems to improve productivity of IT operations and compliance with organization’s standards.
• Troubleshoot techniques to identify issues with containerized applications, cluster operators and compute capacity.

Course content summary

• Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift
• Manage local containers and building container images
• Deploy and troubleshoot containerized applications for OpenShift
• Control access to projects using role-based access control (RBAC)
• Control resource usage through quotas and limits
• Isolate applications though network policies
• Automate OpenShift administration tasks using Ansible and Jenkins
• Provision persistent storage tailored for application requirements
• Manage monitoring metrics and alerts
• Deploying and configuring log aggregation

System Administrators, Cloud Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) interested in adopting container and Kubernetes technologies.
 

Prerequisites for this training
• Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or demonstrate equivalent experience
Technology requirements
• Internet access is required for this course in order to access the OpenShift shared and dedicated clusters.

Get started with container technology

• Describe how applications can run in containers orchestrated by OpenShift Container Platform.

Create containerized services

• Provision a service using container technology.

Manage containers

• Manipulate pre-built container images to create and manage containerized services.

Manage container images

• Manage the life cycle of a container image from creation to deletion.

Create custom container images

• Design and code a Dockerfile to build a custom container image.

Deploy containerized applications on OpenShift

• Deploy single container applications on OpenShift Container Platform.

Deploying multi-container applications

• Deploy applications that are containerized using multiple container images.

Publish enterprise container images

• Interact with an enterprise registry and publish container images to it.

Deploying multi-container applications

• Deploy multi-container applications using Helm charts and Kustomize.

Managing application deployments

• Monitor application health and implement various deployment methods for cloud-native applications.

Describing the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

• Describe the architecture of OpenShift Container Platform.

Verify the health of a cluster

• Describe OpenShift installation methods and verify the health of a newly installed cluster.

Configuring authentication and authorization

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

Configuring application security

• Restrict permissions of applications using security context constraints and protect access credentials using secrets.

Configuring OpenShift networking for applications

• Troubleshoot OpenShift software-defined networking (SDN) and configure network policies.

Controlling pod scheduling

• Control the nodes on which a pod runs.

Describing cluster updates

• Describe how to perform a cluster update.

Managing a cluster with the web console

• Manage a Red Hat OpenShift cluster using the web console.

Moving from Kubernetes to OpenShift

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

Introducing automation with OpenShift

• Automate OpenShift using scripts and Ansible playbooks.

Managing OpenShift operators

• Manage operators and OpenShift cluster operators.

Implementing GitOps with Jenkins

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

Configuring enterprise authentication

• Configure OpenShift integration with enterprise identity providers.

Configuring trusted TLS certificates

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

Configuring dedicated node pools

• Add nodes to an OpenShift cluster with custom configurations.

Configuring persistent storage

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

Managing cluster monitoring and metrics

• Configure and manage the OpenShift monitoring stack.

Provisioning and inspecting cluster logging

• Deploy and query cluster-wide logging, and diagnose common issues using tools.

Recovering failed worker nodes

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