A Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes has validated the ability to:

• Understand container and OpenShift architecture.
• Create containerized services.
• Manage containers and container images via basic diagnostic procedures.
• Create custom container images.
• Deploy containerized applications on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Deploy multi-container applications on Red Hat OpenShift.

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes certification is designed for:

• Developers who wish to containerize software applications.
• Administrators who are new to container technology and container orchestration.
• Architects who are considering using container technologies in software architectures.
• Site reliability engineers who are considering using Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes exam (EX180)

We recommend this course to help you prepare to become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes:

• Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (DO180)

• Join our network of academic partners in working with the recognized leader of Linux in the IT industry
• Offer curriculum in Linux, cloud, and development technologies
• Align to educational institution needs for flexible course design
• Prepare your students with the foundational skills necessary to embark on other technology topics
• Take advantage of no-cost membership for qualifying institutions

• Teach best-in-class IT curriculum for system administrators and developers
• Validate your knowledge with discounted Red Hat certification exams
• Stay current with curriculum updates
• Keep learning with no-cost access to select video classroom courses
• Run your curriculum and labs effectively with Red Hat program support

• Learn in-demand skills
• Get certified with discounted exams by the leader in open source
• Choose your best learning style with multiple courseware formats
• Gain valuable experience with hands-on lab environments
• Connect with Red Hat instructors and students in the Red Hat Learning Community

Identify issues in the areas of availability, performance, stability, and configuration best practices, based on 20+ years of Red Hat knowledge.

• Identify known configuration risks in the operating system, underlying infrastructure, or workloads that impact performance, stability, availability, or security
• View and prioritize risks based on system, type, severity, or impact of change
• Take action using tailored remediation guidance that is designed for use by all skill levels or create playbooks for resolution at scale

Assess, monitor, remediate, and report on Common Vulnerability Exposures (CVEs) that impact Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments in the cloud or on-premises.

Understand  and triage vulnerabilities based on severity, Red Hat ratings for CVEs, and the level of exposure the risk creates for your organization

Remediate or mitigate identified CVEs by creating playbooks for automated resolution

Generate vulnerability reports for communicating status and knowns risks

Identify the level of compliance of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment to an OpenSCAP policy through a single tool.

• Identify systems that violate regulatory compliance policies using OpenSCAP, an open source compliance tool
• Review and prioritize compliance issues and remediate most non-compliant environments using playbooks
• Generate compliance reports for use by executives, security teams, and others

Because every environment is unique, create and manage your own policies that act on system configurations

• Analyze environment configurations to understand non-aligned areas and receive alerts
• Use webhooks capabilities to integrate these policies into existing processes

Identify your current patching status for Red Hat environments by determining which Red Hat Product Advisories apply to your environments.

• Identify and prioritize Red Hat Advisory exposures across all Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments
• Once needed patches are identified, apply them to any system or cloud instance manually or using playbooks

Track progress of your Red Hat subscription usage.

• Access unified reporting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription usage and utilization
• Focus on workload management and deploy subscriptions where it makes most sense for the business
• Use a cloud-based reporting dashboard for account-wide Red Hat subscription utilization, trending and alerting

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Course description

Configure, manage, and troubleshoot OpenShift clusters and containerized applications

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.

DO280 focuses on configuring multi-tenancy and security features of OpenShift. DO280 also teaches how to manage OpenShift add-ons based on operators.

This course is based on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.

5-10 Course Topics

• Configuring authentication and authorization for users and applications.
• Protecting network traffic with network policies and TLS.
• Protecting cluster capacity with resource quotas.
• Enabling developer self-service of application projects.
• Managing OpenShift cluster updates and Kubernetes operator updates.

Outline for this course

Manage Kubernetes Operators
Install and update Operators that are managed by the Operator Lifecycle Manager and by the Cluster Version Operator.

Application Security
Run applications that require elevated or special privileges from the host Operating System or Kubernetes.

OpenShift Updates
Update an OpenShift cluster and minimize disruption to deployed applications.