free course – CL010 – Red Hat OpenStack Technical Overvi[...]

Course description

An overview of Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Red Hat OpenStack Technical Overview (CL010) is a series of on-demand, online videos to help you better understand the basics of cloud computing and Red Hat® OpenStack® Platform. Several online demonstrations and use cases are included.

This course is available in English (as well as closed-captioned for English), Japanese, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and Italian.

Course summary

Through online, on-demand videos you will learn about:

  • Cloud computing
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform
  • Compute, storage, and network in relation to Red Hat OpenStack Platform
  • High availability with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
  • Deploying Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Note: You can view all videos or only the ones that interest you. There are no hands-on labs or course completion recognition associated with this course.

Audience for this course

IT leaders, administrators, engineers, architects, and anyone else seeking a high-level understanding of Red Hat OpenStack Platform capabilities

Prerequisites for this course

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Duration 30 days

DO188VT – Red Hat OpenShift Development I: Introduction to Con[...]

Course description

A developer introduction to building and managing containers with Podman for deploying applications on Red Hat OpenShift.

Red Hat OpenShift Development I: Introduction to Containers with Podman (DO188) introduces students to building, running, and managing containers with Podman and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. This course helps students build the core skills for developing containerized applications through hands-on experience.

This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9, Podman 4.4 and Red Hat OpenShift® 4.14.

Course content summary

  • Introduction to containers
  • Run containers with Podman CLI and Podman Desktop
  • Build custom container images
  • Manage container images
  • Remote debugging with containers
  • Basic container networking
  • Persist data with containers
  • Run multi-container applications
  • Troubleshoot Container Deployments
  • Orchestrate containers with OpenShift and Kubernetes

Audience for this course

Prerequisites for this course

  • Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills
  • Some experience with web application architectures and their corresponding technologies
  • Experience in the use of a Linux terminal session, issuing operating system commands, and familiarity with shell scripting is recommended

Technology considerations

  • For virtual or self-paced learners:
    • Internet access is required
    • BYOD/BYDW is not supported
  • For classroom learners:
    • Initially, no ILT classroom will be available. It will be available post-release but without a defined timeline yet
    • BYOD/BYDW is not supported

DO467VT – Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible [...]

Course description

Manage complex Red Hat Ansible automation workflows at scale and prevent single points of failure.

Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467) is for experienced Ansible automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and Linux system administrators seeking to deploy, control, and support centralized automation execution on a large scale. Students will use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 to scale up Ansible automation. They will deploy automation controller to centrally manage automation workflows, automation mesh to scale up and distribute execution capacity, and private automation hub to manage Ansible Content Collections and automation execution environments for use by automation developers. Large scale automation cluster design and approaches to ensure high availability of Ansible Automation Platform will also be discussed.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

Following course completion, you will receive a 45-day extended access to hands-on labs for any course that includes a virtual environment.Note: This course is offered as a five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery. For full course details, scheduling, and pricing, select your location then “get started” on the right hand menu.

Course content summary

  • Discussion of the architecture of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.
  • Installation and configuration of automation controllers and private automation hubs to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
  • Integration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with centralized Git repository services such as GitLab.
  • Management of users, teams, and access permissions in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
  • Creation and management of workflows that execute automation based on the success or failure of previous jobs.
  • Configuration and management of automation mesh to distribute execution between automation controller and remote execution nodes.
  • Troubleshooting and maintenance of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
  • Discussion of recommended practices to ensure high availability and scalability of a large automation cluster.

Audience for this course

This course is designed for users who need to provide, manage, and maintain Ansible automation infrastructure for their organizations, including these roles:

  • Ansible automation engineers and architects
  • Linux system administrators supporting automation operations
  • DevOps engineers

Prerequisites for this course

Technology considerations

  • Internet access recommended but not required.

DO467 – Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Au[...]

Course description

Manage complex Red Hat Ansible automation workflows at scale and prevent single points of failure.

Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO467) is for experienced Ansible automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and Linux system administrators seeking to deploy, control, and support centralized automation execution on a large scale. Students will use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 to scale up Ansible automation. They will deploy automation controller to centrally manage automation workflows, automation mesh to scale up and distribute execution capacity, and private automation hub to manage Ansible Content Collections and automation execution environments for use by automation developers. Large scale automation cluster design and approaches to ensure high availability of Ansible Automation Platform will also be discussed.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

Following course completion, you will receive a 45-day extended access to hands-on labs for any course that includes a virtual environment.Note: This course is offered as a five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery. For full course details, scheduling, and pricing, select your location then “get started” on the right hand menu.

Course content summary

  • Discussion of the architecture of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.
  • Installation and configuration of automation controllers and private automation hubs to centrally coordinate and scale Red Hat Ansible Automation.
  • Integration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with centralized Git repository services such as GitLab.
  • Management of users, teams, and access permissions in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
  • Creation and management of workflows that execute automation based on the success or failure of previous jobs.
  • Configuration and management of automation mesh to distribute execution between automation controller and remote execution nodes.
  • Troubleshooting and maintenance of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform services.
  • Discussion of recommended practices to ensure high availability and scalability of a large automation cluster.

Audience for this course

This course is designed for users who need to provide, manage, and maintain Ansible automation infrastructure for their organizations, including these roles:

  • Ansible automation engineers and architects
  • Linux system administrators supporting automation operations
  • DevOps engineers

Prerequisites for this course

Technology considerations

  • Internet access recommended but not required.

DO322 – Red Hat OpenShift Installation Lab

Course description

Installing OpenShift on a cloud, virtual, or physical infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift Installation Lab (DO322) teaches essential skills for installing an OpenShift cluster in a range of environments, from proof of concept to production, and how to identify customizations that may be required because of the underlying cloud, virtual, or physical infrastructure.

This course is based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.

Following course completion, you will receive a 45-day extended access to hands-on labs for any course that includes a virtual environment.Note: This course is offered as a three day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery. For full course details, scheduling, and pricing, select your location then “get started” on the right hand menu.

Course summary

  • Validate infrastructure prerequisites for an OpenShift cluster.
  • Run the OpenShift installer with custom settings.
  • Describe and monitor each stage of the OpenShift installation process.
  • Collect troubleshooting information during an ongoing installation, or after a failed installation.
  • Complete the configuration of cluster services in a newly installed cluster.

Target Audience

  • Cluster administrators (Junior systems administrators, junior cloud administrators) interested in deploying additional clusters to meet increasing demands from their organizations.
  • Cluster engineers (Senior systems administrators, senior cloud administrators, cloud engineers) interested in the planning and design of OpenShift clusters to meet performance and reliability of different workloads and in creating work books for these installations.
  • Site reliability engineers (SREs) interested in deploying test bed clusters to validate new settings, updates, customizations, operational procedures, and responses to incidents.

Recommended training

  • Achieving the Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration certification on OpenShift 4 is strongly recommended, or at least taking Red Hat OpenShift Administration II: Operating a Production Kubernetes Cluster (DO280) before taking this course.
    • “Equivalent knowledge of Kubernetes” is not applicable here because performing anything other than a very minimal, all-defaults Full Stack Automated installation of OpenShift on a cloud provider requires knowledge of OpenShift cluster operators.
  • Achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration before taking DO322 is also strongly recommended.

Technology considerations

  • No local instructor led training (ILT) classroom is provided for DO322. All modalities require access to cloud-based classrooms.
  • This course uses cloud labs provisioned in the Red Hat Training Cloud.
  • Internet access is required in order for the installer tool to function as designed.

DO400 – Red Hat DevOps Pipelines and Processes: CI/CD with Jen[...]

Course description

Build essential skills to implement agile and DevOps development processes and workflows.

DevOps practices have enabled organizations to undergo a digital transformation, moving from a monolithic waterfall approach to a rapidly deploying cloud-based agile process. This transformation requires a team of developers trained to use tools that enable them to spend more time coding and testing and less time troubleshooting. Red Hat DevOps Pipelines and Processes: CI/CD with Jenkins, Git, and Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a practical introduction to DevOps for developers that teaches students the necessary skills and technologies for automated building and deploying of cloud-native applications.

Course content summary

  • Version control with Git
  • Build and execute Jenkins pipelines
  • Release strategies
  • Build applications with Test Driven Development
  • Security scanning and code analysis of applications
  • Monitor applications and pipelines
  • Consume and troubleshoot pipelines

Audience for this course

This course is designed for application developers.

Recommended training

Experience with application development in Java, Node.js, Python, or others is required.Experience with application development or Red Hat Application Development I: Programming in Java EE (AD183) is recommended, but not required.Proficiency in using an IDE such as Red Hat® Developer Studio or VSCodeIntroduction to OpenShift Applications (DO101) is recommended, but not required.Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.

DO480VT – Multicluster Management with Red Hat OpenShift Platf[...]

Course description

Enhance container management capabilities with automation, governance, and security across clusters.

Multicluster Management with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus teaches the skills required to maintain a diverse portfolio of applications, running across a fleet of OpenShift clusters. Applications follow placement rules determined by capacity and criticality; cluster configurations comply with governance and security policies; all automated according to DevOps principles.

This course is based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.4.

Course content summary

  • Deploy Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) in a hub cluster
  • Add a managed cluster to RHACM (configure a cluster to be managed by RHACM)
  • Define and apply cluster configuration policies
  • Detect and correct non-conformance to cluster configuration policies
  • Visualize and compare cluster settings between different clusters
  • Define and apply application placement policies
  • Identify and compare application resources from multiple clusters
  • Deploy Red Hat Quay in the hub cluster
  • Deploy Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS) in the hub cluster
  • Integrate Red Hat Quay and RHACS with RHACM.

Audience for this course

  • System Administrators, Developers, Site Reliability Engineers, and IT Architects interested in managing and automating the management of a fleet of OpenShift clusters, possibly in different data centers and cloud providers.

Prerequisites for this course

DO316VT – Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Vir[...]

Course description

Create and manage virtual machines on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator

Managing Virtual Machines with OpenShift Virtualization teaches the essential skills required to create and manage virtual machines (VM) on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator. This course does not require previous knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.

This course provides:

  • Skills required to create, access, and manage VMs on OpenShift clusters.
  • Skills required to control usage and access of cpu, memory, storage, and networking resources from VMs using the same Kubernetes features that would also control usage and access to these resources for containers.
  • Sample architectures to manage High Availability (HA) of VMs using standard Kubernetes features and extensions from OpenShift Virtualization.
  • Strategies to connect VMs on OpenShift to data center services outside of their OpenShift cluster, such as storage and databases.

Course content summary

  • Create VMs from installation media and disk images
  • Access text and graphical consoles of a VM
  • Connect to VMs using Kubernetes networking (services, ingress, and routes)
  • Provision storage to VMs using Kubernetes storage (PVC, PV, and storage classes)
  • Start, pause, and stop VMs
  • Clone and snapshot VMs
  • Connect VMs to external and extra networks (outside of the Kubernetes pod and service networks)
  • Provision load balancer services for VMs and then use the services to enable SSH access to VMs
  • Connect VMs to host storage and external storage
  • Create VMs from VM Templates
  • Migrate VMs from compatible hypervisors

Audience for this course

  • Virtual Machine Administrators interested in moving virtualized workloads from traditional Hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization
  • Kubernetes Administrators (Cluster Administrators, Clusters Engineers) interested in supporting containerized and virtualized workloads in the same OpenShift cluster
  • Site Reliability Engineers interested in using GitOps and Ansible Automation to manage Virtual Machines on OpenShift

Prerequisites for this course

DO374 – Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Au[...]

Course description

Advance your Ansible skills and develop automation that scales by applying recommended practices with the new, container focused tools from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374) is designed for automation content developers to leverage the new, container focused tools from Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform to efficiently develop automation that can be managed by the automation controller. Learn recommended practices for automation development using reusable code, advanced playbook techniques, shared execution environments, and preparing for scalable automation with the automation content navigator.

This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.

Following course completion, you will receive a 45-day extended access to hands-on labs for any course that includes a virtual environment.Note: This course is offered as a five day virtual class or self-paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery. For full course details, scheduling, and pricing, select your location then “get started” on the right hand menu.

Course content summary

  • Leverage capabilities of the automation content navigator to develop Ansible Playbooks.
  • Apply recommended practices for effective and efficient automation with Ansible.
  • Use advanced features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to work with data, including filters and plugins.
  • Perform automation operations as rolling updates.
  • Create automation execution environments to bundle and distribute the dependencies needed to run automation code.

Target Audience

This course is designed for users who create automation content, including these roles:

  • Developers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Linux system administrators
  • Other IT professionals with basic expertise using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate, provision, configure, and deploy applications and services in a Linux environment

Recommended training

Technology considerations

  • No BYOD/BYDW or internet required. (Implementation of SSH access for VT/ROLE will require internet for that purpose.)

TL250VT – Red Hat Training: Open Practices for your DevOps Jou[...]

Course description

Discover open practices for incremental process changes to assist in your DevOps transformation journey.

Open Practices for your DevOps Journey (TL250) prepares a student to facilitate and participate in discovery, planning, and delivery of projects where DevOps transformation is desired. At the end of this course, you will establish a toolbox of select practices and rethink your approach to cross-functional team projects. Utilizing new skills will enable your organization to effectively discover team purpose, align on project options, and deliver value that achieves target outcomes.

Following course completion, you will receive a 45-day extended access to hands-on labs for any course that includes a virtual environment.Note: This course is self paced. Durations may vary based on the delivery. For full course details, scheduling, and pricing, select your location then “get started” on the right hand menu.

Course content summary

  • Discovery practices that support creating alignment on who and what is desired to be created.
  • Delivery practices that support creating quick and effective means to deliver and reflect.
  • Options-pivot practices that support prioritization and organizing work to be logically completed.
  • Foundational team practices that support team collaboration and communication, and technical concepts.
  • How work visualization and remote collaboration can be done to support DevOps delivery methods.

Target audience

  • Project Managers, Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters: Individuals facilitating project planning and execution who wish to adjust their approach and incrementally move the organization toward DevOps.
  • System Administrators, SRE, application developers: Technical project team members participating in discovery, planning, and execution phases will accelerate the completion of these practices with greater detail.
  • Leadership, product owners, key stakeholders: Individuals with a vested interest in project success or who provide oversight, goals, and objectives for why the project is needed will have greater insight into the process and ensure their requirements are captured.

Recommended training

  • There are no prerequisites for this course.

Technology considerations

  • This course does not have accompanying labs but may require the use of an internet browser to access several collaboration tools such as Miro or Trello.