Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster
Configure and manage OpenShift clusters to maintain security and reliability across multiple applications and development teams. Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster (DO280) prepares OpenShift Cluster Administrators to perform daily administration tasks on clusters that host applications provided by internal teams and external vendors, enable self-service for cluster users with different roles, and deploy applications that require special permissions such as such as CI/CD tooling, performance monitoring, and security scanners.
Retail Price: $4,700.00
Next Date: 10/06/2025
Course Days: 5
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Skills Gained
- Deploying packaged applications using manifests, templates, kustomize, and helm.
- Configuring authentication and authorization for users and applications.
- Protecting network traffic with network policies and exposing applications with proper network access.
- Deploying and managing applications using resources manifests.
- Enabling developer self-service of application projects.
- Managing OpenShift cluster updates and Kubernetes operator updates.
Who Can Benefit
- System and Software Architects interested in understanding the features and functionality of an OpenShift cluster.
- System Administrators interested in the ongoing management of clusters and containerized applications.
- Cluster Operators interested in managing access to cluster resources by users and applications.
- Site Reliability Engineers interested in the ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting of a cluster.
Prerequisites
- Complete Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift (DO180), or demonstrate equivalent experience with containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift fundamentals.
- Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration experience.
- Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
Outline for this course
- Describe the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- Verify the health of a cluster
- Configure authentication and authorization
- Configure application security
- Configure OpenShift networking for applications
- Control pod scheduling
- Describe cluster updates
- Manage a cluster with the web console
Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- List the features and describe the architecture of the Openshift Container Platform.
Install OpenShift Container Platform
- Install OpenShift and configure the cluster.
Explore OpenShift networking concepts
- Describe and explore OpenShift networking concepts.
Execute commands
- Execute commands using the command-line interface.
Manage OpenShift resources
- Control access to OpenShift resources.
Allocate persistent storage
- Implement persistent storage.
Manage application deployments
- Manipulate resources to manage deployed applications.
Metrics subsystem
- Install and configure the metrics-gathering system.
Manage and monitor
- Manage and monitor OpenShift resources and software.
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| 10/6/2025 - 10/10/2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 10/20/2025 - 10/24/2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 10/27/2025 - 10/31/2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 11/3/2025 - 11/7/2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 11/17/2025 - 11/21/2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 12/1/2025 - 12/5/2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 12/15/2025 - 12/19/2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 1/12/2026 - 1/16/2026 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 1/26/2026 - 1/30/2026 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 2/16/2026 - 2/20/2026 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 3/2/2026 - 3/6/2026 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll | |
| 3/30/2026 - 4/3/2026 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Virtual | Enroll |