Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster (DO280) teaches you how to configure, troubleshoot, and manage Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform. This hands-on, lab-based course shows you how to verify the successful installation of a cluster, manage it on a day-to-day basis, and troubleshoot the deployment of containerized applications.

This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.2 and OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• 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

• Describe the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Verify the health of a cluster
• Configure authentication and authorization
• Configure application security
• Configure OpenShift networking for applications
• Control pod scheduling
• Describe cluster updates
• Manage a cluster with the web console

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

• System and Software Architects interested in understanding features and functionality of an OpenShift cluster.
• System Administrators interested in the ongoing management of clusters and containerized applications.
• Cluster Operators interested in managing access to cluster resources by users and applications.
• Site Reliability Engineers interested in the ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting of a cluster.

• 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
• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.