Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Configuring a Production Cluster

• System Administrators who need to manage OpenShift clusters, applications, users, and add-ons.
• Site Reliability Engineers who need to maintain and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters.
• System and Software Architects who need to understand the security of an OpenShift cluster.

• Describe the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster installation and update processes
• Troubleshoot application deployments
• Configure authentication using local users
• Control access to projects using role-based access control (RBAC)
• Expose applications to clients external to the cluster using TLS encryption
• Configure network isolation between services and applications using network policies
• Configure application scheduling using labels and selectors
• Limit compute resource usage of applications with resource limits and quotas
• Manage a cluster and deployed applications with the Web Console
• Install Kubernetes Operators with the Web Console

• Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration experience
• Complete Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (DO180), or demonstrate equivalent experience with containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift basics
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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.