OKD (Origin Kubernetes Distribution) for Administrators Training Course
OKD serves as an application development platform designed for deploying containerized applications using Kubernetes. It acts as the upstream code base upon which Red Hat OpenShift Online and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform are built.
Through this instructor-led, live training (available onsite or remotely), participants will acquire the skills to install, configure, and manage OKD either on-premise or in the cloud.
Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:
- Create, configure, manage, and troubleshoot an OKD cluster.
- Secure OKD.
- Deploy containerized applications on OKD.
- Monitor the performance of applications running within OKD.
- Manage data storage.
- Rapidly deploy applications on-premise or on public clouds such as AWS.
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions.
- Extensive exercises and practice sessions.
- Hands-on implementation within a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- This course is based on OKD (Origin Kubernetes Distribution).
- To customize the course or request training on a different version of OpenShift (e.g., OpenShift Container Platform 3 or OpenShift Container Platform 4), please contact us to make arrangements.
Course Outline
Introduction
Installing an OKD Cluster
Configuring and Managing Masters and Nodes
Working with Container Registries
Managing Users and Groups
Networking Using Cluster Network Operator
Managing Storage on OKD
Working with Operators
Monitoring an OKD Cluster
Managing an OKD Control Plane
Scaling an Application on OKD
Customizing OKD
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- A general understanding of containers and orchestration
- System administration or DevOps experience
Audience
- System administrators
- Architects
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