Red Hat OpenShift skill paths

November 13, 2025•
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Validate your Red Hat OpenShift skills

Red Hat® Training and Certification offers training on Red Hat OpenShift® for individuals of all experience levels. These paths cover topics including deploying containers, developing containerized applications, managing container storage, and using automated DevOps pipelines. 

Administrator track

Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator skills path

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization skills path

This Virtualization skills path is designed to support learners with varying goals. You can follow a shorter path focused on immediate virtual machine (VM) migration, or choose the comprehensive route to gain the full range of skills needed to create and manage VMs on Red Hat OpenShift. While completing DO180 is not a prerequisite, learners are encouraged to have a basic understanding of Red Hat OpenShift before advancing through the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization skills path. 

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  • 25% to 50% more efficient in completing day-to-day IT tasks

  • 20% reduction in tickets generated, and a 32% reduction in time to remediate tickets

  • Increased rate of effectiveness for new hires from 50% to 77%

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Red Hat OpenShift cloud services 

It is not required, however, we recommend completing the OpenShift Administration DO180, DO280 courses to gain administration skills that apply to the OpenShift self-managed cloud services courses. This path offers the flexibility to select your learning path, since we offer Red Hat OpenShift courses on both Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

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Red Hat OpenShift Administrator specializations

Once you have received your Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification (EX280), we recommend selecting specialized courses and exams from the list below. You have the flexibility to select the most relevant courses and certifications based on your learning journey and are able to complete them in nonsequential order.    

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Developer track

Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Developer skills path

Red Hat OpenShift Application Developer specializations 

Once you have received your Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development (EX288), we recommend selecting specialized courses and exams from the list below. You have the flexibility to select the most relevant courses and certifications to your learning journey and are able to complete them in non-sequential order.   

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