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OPENSHIFT ADMINISTRATION Training in Longmont, Colorado

This hands-on course with lab exercises will help learners to install and manage an OpenShift cluster.

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What you'll learn

This hands-on course with lab exercises will help learners to install and manage an OpenShift cluster. Throughout the course learners will understand the benefits and purposes of the platform. This includes how to install the cluster, explore networking concepts, understand commands, manage OpenShift resources, configure storage, manage application deployments, and administer the cluster through logging and monitoring.

Prerequisites

Learners will need a working knowledge of Linux systems administration skills or the equivalent knowledge of skills found in the GL120 - Linux Fundamentals and GL250 - Enterprise Linux Systems Administration courses. Also learners will benefit from an understanding of containerization as found in the Docker course.

Course Outline

INSTALLATION AND CORE CONCEPTS
1. OCP 4.x Installation
2. DEMO: Installing OpenShift on AWS
3. Kubernetes Architecture
4. Cluster Communication
5. Objects
6. Object Properties
7. Labels & Selectors
8. Annotations
9. Object Management
10. Image Fundamentals
11. Container Fundamentals
12. Pod Fundamentals
13. Working with Pods
14. Openshift Overview
15. DEMO: Configuring an Identity Provider
16. DEMO: Openshift Web Console
LAB TASKS
1. Container and Pod Fundamentals
2. Pod Fundamentals
3. Openshift CLI Basics
4. Openshift GUI Basics
APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
1. Pod Lifecycle
2. Container Lifecycle
3. Init Containers
4. Container: command and args
5. Container: Defining Environment
6. ReplicaSet
7. Deployments
8. Working with Deployments
9. Deployment Rollouts
10. DEMO: Sock Shop Microservice on OpenShift
LAB TASKS
1. Pod Lifecycle
2. Init Containers
3. Deployments
4. Scaling Workloads
NETWORKING
1. Network Overview
2. Openshift Networking
3. Service Discovery & CoreDNS
4. Container Network Interface (CNI)
5. Services
6. Ingress Objects
7. DEMO: Installing a Valid SSL Certificate
LAB TASKS
1. Port-Forwarding
2. Services
3. Openshift Routes
STORAGE
1. Storage
2. Volume Types
3. Static Volumes (DEMO)
4. ConfigMaps
5. Secrets
6. Openshift Container Storage
LAB TASKS
1. (DEMO) Static Volumes
2. (DEMO) —GUI— Deploy GitLab with Persistent Storage
3. (DEMO) —CLI— Deploy GitLab with Persistent Storage
4. (DEMO) ConfigMaps & Secrets
5. Static Volume Provisioning
6. ConfigMaps and Secrets
SCHEDULING
1. Controlling and Tracking Resources
2. Scheduler Operation
3. DaemonSet
4. Node Affinity & Anti-affinity
5. Pod Affinity & Anti-affinity
6. Taints & Tolerations
LAB TASKS
1. (DEMO) Affinity and Taints
2. Pod Resources and Scheduling
3. Static Scheduling and Daemonsets
4. Pod and Node Affinities
SECURITY
1. Controlling Access to the Kubernetes API
2. Kubectl Configuration
3. Role–Based Access Control
4. Service Accounts
5. Admission Controllers
6. PodSecurityPolicy Admission Controller
7. Default Admission Controllers
LOGGING
1. Logging Basics
2. Aggregated Cluster Logging
LAB TASKS
1. DEMO - Cluster Logging

JOBS AND CRONJOBS
1. Jobs
2. CronJobs
LAB TASKS
1. Jobs
2. CronJobs
LINUX CONTAINERS
1. Application Management Landscape
2. Application Isolation
3. Resource Measurement and Control
4. Container Security
5. OverlayFS Overview
6. Container Security
7. Open Container Initiative
LAB TASKS
1. Container Concepts runC

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