DO032

Unlock the full potential of your Kubernetes infrastructure.

Course Description

• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes technical overview reveals how to unify and simplify the management of your Kubernetes clusters across any environment – from public and private clouds to bare metal and edge devices. Through a series of free on-demand videos, you’ll discover how to streamline multi-cluster lifecycle management and manage your KubeVirt-based virtual machines all within a single console. Enforce centralized policies with powerful governance tools and leverage GitOps for seamless application deployment. Gain unparalleled visibility with unified observability and simplify cross-cluster networking. This technical overview will demonstrate how to transform your operations and take command of your entire Kubernetes landscape.

Course Content Summary

• Multi-cluster Lifecycle Management: Learn how to centrally create, update, and delete Kubernetes clusters across various cloud providers (public, private, bare metal, edge). The overview demonstrates basic day-2 operations such as upgrading clusters, changing channels, hibernating, resuming, detaching, and destroying clusters. It also covers the ability to discover existing clusters in public clouds and manage bare metal host inventory.
• Virtual Machine Management: Discover how Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes extends its reach to manage KubeVirt-based virtual machines residing within your clusters. The videos show day-2 operations for VMs (stop, restart, pause, edit, delete) and the ability to launch into the VM context to view details, console, metrics, and YAML. It also demonstrates creating new virtual machines at scale using GitOps.
• Policy Governance and Enforcement: Understand Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes’ robust governance engine for centralizing and enforcing policies across your clusters. The overview demonstrates how to create simple policies, manage policy sets, and utilize the "inform" and "enforce" remediation types to automatically resolve violations. It highlights support for Kyverno policies as of ACM 2.13 and the ability to discover policies from various engines like Gatekeeper and Kyverno. Policy deployment using the Application engine and Argo CD ApplicationSet is also showcased.
• Application Deployment with GitOps: Learn how Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes leverages Red Hat GitOps, specifically through Argo CD, for quick and declarative application deployment. The course demonstrates creating new applications from Git or Helm repositories, configuring placement based on cluster sets or labels, and viewing application topologies with real-time logs and editable YAML.
• Unified Observability: Explore Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes’ integrated observability features, providing a unified view of all Kubernetes clusters through Grafana. The course showcases pre-shipped dashboards for cluster overviews, hosted control planes, and OpenShift Virtualization. It also demonstrates configuring alerts and customizing dashboards with metrics.
• Networking with Submariner: Discover how Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes manages networking within clusters by leveraging Submariner, which simplifies application connections, offers encrypted traffic, and provides cross-cluster service discovery.

Audience for this course

• This course is designed for Java application developers.

Recommended training

• There are no prerequisites for this Technical Overview.

Technology considerations

• N/A

Course Outline

• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes overview
• Cluster lifecycle
• Multicluster observability
• Application lifecycle
• Policy engine
• Managing virtual machines with GitOps

Recommended next course or exam

• Multicluster Management with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (DO432)