Overview

Introduction to building and managing containers for deployment on a Kubernetes and OpenShift 4 cluster

Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (DO180) introduces students to building and managing containers for deployment on a Kubernetes cluster. This course helps students build core knowledge and skills in managing containers through hands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes, and the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needed for multiple roles, including developers, administrators and site reliability engineers.

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

Duration

 03 days

Course summary

• Container and OpenShift architecture
• Creating containerized services
• Managing containers and container images
• Creating custom container images
• Deploying containerized applications on OpenShift
• Deploying multi-container applications

Intended Audience

• Developers who want to containerize software applications.
• Administrators who are new to container technology and container orchestration.
• Architects who are looking to use container technologies in software architectures.
• Site Reliability Engineers who want to support their technology infrastructure using Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Prerequisites

• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
• Experience in the use of a Linux terminal session, issuing operating system commands, and familiarity with shell scripting. A Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification is recommended but not required.
• Some experience with web application architectures and their corresponding technologies.

Technology considerations

This course requires Internet connectivity to access public facing resources

Course Outline          

1.      Introducing container technology

• Describe how software can run in containers orchestrated by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

2.      Creating containerized services

• Provision a service using container technology.

3.      Managing containers

• Modify pre-build container images to create and manage containerized services.

4.      Managing container images

• Manage the life cycle of a container image from creation to deletion.

5.      Creating custom container images

• Design and code a Container file to build a custom container image.

6.      Deploying containerized applications on OpenShift

• Deploy single container applications on OpenShift Container Platform.

7.      Deploying multi-container applications

• Deploy applications that are containerized using multiple container images.

8.      Troubleshooting containerized applications

• Troubleshoot a containerized application deployed on OpenShift.

9.      Comprehensive review of introduction to container, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift

• Demonstrate how to containerize a software application, test it with Podman, and deploy it on an OpenShift cluster.