Overview
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 support a growing number of stakeholders, applications, and users to achieve large-scale deployments.
This course is based on Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.
Who should attend
- 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
- Complete Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Configuring a Production 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 required.
Course Objectives
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.
Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.
Impact on the individual
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.
Follow On Courses
Product Description
- Manage OpenShift cluster operators and add operators.
- Implement GitOps workflows using Jenkins.
- 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 sets and machine configurations.
Outline
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.