This course equips participants to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters for production use. It builds operational competence across application hosting, container networking, and system-level controls in OpenShift.
Learning Outcomes:
Manage OpenShift resources, projects, and user access
Implement container image builds and automated deployment pipelines
Troubleshoot pod failures, node issues, and cluster performance
Secure workloads and configure network policies
Monitor, log, and audit system activity using built-in tools
Key Topics:
OpenShift architecture, CLI tools, and operator lifecycle
Pod scheduling, networking, and persistent storage
Troubleshooting tools: oc logs, events, metrics
OpenShift role-based access control (RBAC)
CI/CD, image builds, and pipeline configuration
Describe the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Describe the architecture of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP).
Verify the health of a cluster
Describe OpenShift installation methods and verify the health of a newly installed cluster.
Configure authentication and authorization
Configure authentication with the HTPasswd identity provider and assign roles to users and groups.
Configure application security
Restrict permissions of applications using security context constraints and protect access credentials using secrets.
Configure OpenShift networking for applications
Troubleshoot OpenShift software-defined networking (SDN) and configure network policies.
Control pod scheduling
Control which nodes a pod runs on.
Describe cluster updates
Describe how to perform a cluster update.
Manage a cluster with the web console
Manage a Red Hat OpenShift cluster using the web console.
Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.