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

• Describe the installation and upgrade processes for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters
• Troubleshoot application deployment issues
• Set up authentication with local users
• Control access to projects using role-based access control (RBAC)
• Allow clients outside the cluster to access applications using TLS encryption
• Configure network isolation between services and applications using network policies
• Configure application scheduling with labels and selectors
• Reduce application compute resource usage with resource limits and quotas
• Manage clusters and deployed applications with the web console
• Install Kubernetes Operators with the web console

• The course is designed for system administrators, system architects, and developers who want to install and configure Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

  • Systems and software architects seeking to understand the features and functions of an OpenShift cluster
  • System administrators interested in ongoing management of clusters and containerized applications
  • Cluster operators who want to manage user and application access to cluster resources
  • Site reliability engineers who are interested in the ongoing maintenance of clusters and the resolution of problems associated with them

• Get accreditation Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate that you have equivalent experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
• Take the course Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (DO180), or demonstrate equivalent experience using containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Take a free evaluation to determine if this offer is the most suitable based on your skills

Description of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

• Describe the architecture of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP).

Checking the status of a cluster

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

Configuring authentication and authorization

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

Setting up application security

• Limit app permissions with security context restrictions and protect access credentials with secrets.

Configuring OpenShift Networking for Applications

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

Control pod scheduling

• Control which nodes a pod runs on.

Understanding cluster updates

• Describe how to upgrade a cluster.

Cluster management with the web console

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