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Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) Crash Course

Published by Pearson

Advanced content levelAdvanced

Explore all of the objectives on the exam and participate in hands-on demos

  • Learn RedHat skills and solutions for the EX280 exam
  • Learn and manage Openshift clusters
  • Manage secure access to applications running in OpenShift

OpenShift is a Red Hat hybrid cloud product for distributing, managing and Orchestrating containers based on Kubernetes and DevOps tools. Kubernetes is the current de facto standard for managing containers in corporate IT, and Red Hat has added integration with DevOps tools to make OpenShift to a valuable tool that can be used for managing containers. This training will give you the skills you need to start implementing Red Hat’s solution as well as prepare you for the for the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration EX280.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

Day 1

  • Understanding OpenShift Clusters
  • Managing OpenShift Clusters
  • Managing OpenShift Resources
  • Configuring Authentication
  • Managing Access Control

Day 2: OpenShift

  • Managing OpenShift Networking
  • Managing Pod Scaling and Scheduling
  • Managing OpenShift Clusters

This live event is for you because...

  • It provides insight and skills needed for working with Applications in OpenShift Cluster
  • It prepares for the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration EX280 exam

Prerequisites

  • Working knowledge of Linux is required, preferably at RHCSA level
  • Participants are expected to have participated in Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes EX180 Crash Course

Course Setup:

  • It is recommended to set up a lab environment before start of the course.
  • Students are recommended to install Code Ready Containers (CRC) on a physical machine. (Virtual machines are not very well supported.) A free version of Code Ready Containers can be obtained from developers.redhat.com. To install Code Ready Containers, the host machine needs support for virtualization, as well as 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPUs and at least 60 GB available disk space. Find additional instructions here for installing Code Ready Containers.

Resources:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Day 1

Segment 1: Understanding and Managing OpenShift Clusters (50 minutes)

  • The architecture of OpenShift Clusters and how to manage them

10 minute break

Segment 2: Managing OpenShift Resources (50 minutes)

  • Managing basic OpenShift resources

10 minute break

Segment 3: Configuring Authentication (2 hours)

  • Managing OpenShift users and policies

10 minute break

Segment 4: Managing Role Based Access Control (50 minutes)

  • Managing role- based access control for OpenShift users

Day 2

Segment 5: Managing OpenShift Networking (2 hours)

  • Managing Services and Routes in OpenShift
  • Managing self-signed certificates, using the openssl command

10 minute break

Segment 6: Managing Pod Scaling and Scheduling (50 minutes)

  • Managing Pod Scheduling, using node affinity, taints and tolerations and other solutions that influence the scheduling process

10 minute break

Segment 7: Managing OpenShift Clusters (50 minutes)

  • Performing generic cluster management tasks

10 minute break

Segment 8: Exam Drill (50 minutes)

  • Review sample exam questions

Your Instructor

  • Sander van Vugt

    Sander van Vugt has many years of experience working with, writing about, and teaching Linux and Open Source topics. He is the author of the best-selling Red Hat RHCSA Cert Guide and the Red Hat RHCSA Complete Video Course along with many other titles on topics that include RHCE, Bash, Kubernetes, Ansible and more. Sander also works as a Linux instructor, teaching on-site and online classes for customers around the world.

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Skills covered

  • Red Hat
  • OpenShift