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Red Hat OpenShift Administration III: Scaling Deployments in the Enterprise Red Hat Learning Subscription Course
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Introduction
Red Hat OpenShift Administration III and exam (DO381) expand upon the skills required to plan, implement, and manage OpenShift® clusters in the enterprise. You will learn how to configure and manage OpenShift clusters at scale to address increasing and special demands from applications and ensure reliability, performance, and availability.
This offering is based on Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform 4.14. The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Scaling OpenShift Deployments exam (EX380) is included.
Audience Profile
- Primary: Platform Engineers, System Administrators, Cloud Administrators, and other infrastructure-related IT roles who are responsible for implementing and managing infrastructure for applications
- Secondary: Enterprise Architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), DevOps Engineers, and other application-related IT roles who are responsible for designing infrastructure for applications
Pre-requisites
- Complete Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster (DO280)and become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
- Complete Red Hat System Administration II (RH134)and become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Recommended, but not required: become a Red Hat Certified Systems Engineeror a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation. Basic knowledge about writing and running Ansible playbooks is desired
Course Objectives
This course builds upon the essential skills required to configure and manage an OpenShift 4.x cluster, teaching the enhanced skills needed to operate production environments at scale, including:
- Configure pools of cluster nodes with special configurations and ensure that only the workloads that are intended for those pools are scheduled on those nodes
- Configure enterprise authentication and group management with legacy LDAP and cloud-native OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity management systems
- Deploy, manage, and query OpenShift logging and configure log forwarding to external log aggregators and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
- Automate cluster configuration and application deployment by using OpenShift GitOps
- Troubleshoot application and cluster performance and availability issues by using OpenShift Monitoring.
- Configure and atomate application-level backups using OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP)
Course Content
| Session 1: Authentication and Identity Management |
| Configure OpenShift clusters to authenticate by using LDAP and OIDC enterprise identity systems and to recognize groups that those systems define. |
| Session 2: Backup, Restore, and Migration of Applications with OADP |
| Backup and restore application settings and data with OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP). |
| Session 3: Cluster Partitioning |
| Configure a subset of cluster nodes to be dedicated to a type of workload. |
| Session 4: Pod Scheduling |
| Configure workloads to run on a dedicated set of cluster nodes and prevent other workloads from using those cluster nodes. |
| Session 5: OpenShift GitOps |
| Deploy OpenShift GitOps for managing clusters and applications. |
| Session 6: OpenShift Monitoring |
| Troubleshoot performance and availability issues with applications and clusters. |
| Session 7: OpenShift Logging |
| Deploy OpenShift logging and query log entries from workloads and cluster nodes. |
Associated Certifications and Exam
The Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration exam (EX380) tests the knowledge, skills, and ability to plan, implement, and manage large-scale OpenShift Container Platform deployments in the enterprise.
By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration that also counts towards earning a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA®).
This exam is based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
The skills and knowledge associated with this exam can be applied to both self-managed editions of OpenShift as well as managed services editions like Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Audience for this exam
- Platform Engineers, System Administrators, Cloud Administrators, and other infrastructure-related IT roles who are responsible for implementing and managing infrastructure for applications
- Enterprise Architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), DevOps Engineers, and other application-related IT roles who are responsible for designing infrastructure for applications
Prerequisites for this exam
Possess a current Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration certification, or equivalent experience and skills with managing OpenShift clusters and containerized applications, according to the topics of the DO180 and DO280 courses for version 4.14 and any later versions. Earlier 4.x releases of DO180 and DO280 are not sufficient.
Upon completion of courses within a Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS), Red Hat issues digital badges and certificates of attendance. These are recognized as official proof of completion.
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