Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: High Availability

Design, build, and test OpenShift HA cluster

Red Hat Openshift Administration II (DO380) teaches you how to build the robust clusters that provide high availability and the ability to run large number of applications. You will learn about Red Hat OpenShift integration with data center infrastructure such as load balances, identity management, monitoring, proxies, and storage. You will also develop more troubleshooting and Day 2 operations skills in this Openshift course.

This course is based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6.

You will design an OpenShift HA cluster, then build and test it. You will use this cluster to examine more advanced topics in the administration and operation of a robust OpenShift cluster in the remainder of the course.

Course content summary

• Understand container and OpenShift architecture
• Create containerized services
• Manage containers and container images
• Create custom container images
• Deploy containerized applications on Red Hat OpenShift
• Deploy multi-container applications

Openshift DO380 Course Outline

Design a highly available cluster
    Design an OpenShift cluster that supports high availability and resiliency
Prepare to install an HA cluster
    Configure the advanced installer and prepare the cluster environment for HA installation
Configure OpenShift to use custom certificates
    Configure the OpenShift cluster to use custom certificates
Build an HA cluster
    Use the advanced installation method to build an HA OpenShift cluster
Provision persistent storage
    Describe storage providers, configure a provider, create a storage class, and test the configuration
Enable log aggregation
    Consolidate useful data for analysis by enabling the log aggregation feature
Maintain an OpenShift cluster
    Perform recurring maintenance activities on an OpenShift cluster
Manage system resources
    Manage operating system and cluster resources for optimal performance
Configure security providers
    Configure security providers and advanced security options
Configure networking options
    Configure various advanced networking features and options

Prerequisites for this course

• Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent experience
• Attend Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift (DO180) or demonstrate equivalent experience with containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Attend Red Hat OpenShift Administration I (DO280) or demonstrate equivalent experience with OpenShift
• Recommended, but not required: become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280)