Course Description

Plan, implement, and manage OpenShift clusters at scale

Red Hat OpenShift Administration III: Scaling Kubernetes Deployments in the Enterprise (DO380) expands upon the skills required to plan, implement, and manage OpenShift clusters in the enterprise. You will learn how to configure and manage OpenShift clusters at scale to address increasing and special demands from applications and ensure reliability, performance, and availability.

This course is based on Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.

Note: This course is offered as a five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery. For full course details, scheduling, and pricing, select your location then “get started” on the right hand menu.

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.

Outline for this course

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.

Audience & Prerequisites

Audience for this course

• 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.

Prerequisites for this course

• 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.