This course serves as a accelerator program to understand, setup and master openshift container platform for professionals who already have an understanding of docker and kubernetes.

• This course is for someone who has already taken docker fundamentals, and kubernetes bootcamp courses/have equivalent knowledge, and would like to learn how to leverage Openshift Platform which is an abstraction on top of it.
• If you are a Operations/Systems personnel and would like to learn how to build a production grade scalable, fault tolerant and high available openshift infrastructure, and administer it, this course it for you.
• If you are a developer and would like to learn how to deploy your application stacks in production, on top of paas solution and also understand the underlying primitives, this course is for you.
• You could be developer/operations personnel and be in charge of securing application infrastructure and setup auxiliary services such as monitoring, centralized logging etc. this course is for you.

• If you are a advanced user of Openshift already, this course is definitely not for you.
• If you are interested in learning docker/container orchestration on windows, this course is not ideal for you as it focuses on linux containers.
• This is mix course for both developers and operations. If you are looking for a course which is very specific to an audience e.g. administrators or developers, ask for a custom outline.

As part of this course you will,

• GO through the theory to learn what is openshift platform, the core concepts relates and the advantages of using it.
• Install and configure a simple(non HA) multi node Openshift cluster with ansible. You would also have a conceptual understanding of how to build a production quality cluster with high availability, scalability, redundancy and security considerations.
• Learn how to deploy, configure, interconnect and publish and scale applications as well as isolate those with multi tenant environments that openshift provides and underlying kubernetes primitives that it leverages.
• Achieve Continuous Integration and Delivery with openshift's integration with git, jenkins and its implicit primitives including builds, pipelines and image streams.
• Learn how to manage persistent storage in a openshift environment
• Learn about the network and security considerations and features offered by Openshift.
• Learn openshift administration tasks such as setting up quotas, managing memberships, monitoring etc.

Even though this course covers many concepts related to kubernetes, since its a very vast topic, it still has the following areas uncovered.

• Cloud specific provisioning and integration
• HA installation of a kubernetes cluster with multi masters
• In depth openshift administration
• Writing Micro Services Applications
• Alternate container runtimes e.g. rocker/rkt, runc

Following are the pre requisite skills to attend this course. Since its a beginner level course, no prior experience with linux containers is assumed.

You should have attended the following course, or have demonstrable knowledge with the topics included in the following course.

• Docker Fundamentals
• Kubernetes Bootcamp

Pre Assessment test will be conducted at the beginning of the course to asses the skills.

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux/Unix Systems Fundamentals
• Familiarity with Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Fundamental knowledge of editors on linux (any one of vi/nano/emacs)
• Understanding of YAML syntax and familiarity with reading/writing basic YAML specifications
• Recommended to have a basic understanding of Ansible

These are the prerequisites for each attendee.

Lab Setup : Instructions can be found at xxx

Following is the supporting material which will be provided to you before/during the course

• Slides (online)
• Workshop (online link)
• Video Course - XXX by School of Devops

All participants should have completed the following checklist before attending the course .

• Successfully Completed Docker Fundamentals Course, or have equivalent skills.
• Successfully Completed Kubernetes Fundamentals Course, or have equivalent skills.
• Verify your system meets the hardware pre requisites.
• Validate the setup : verify all pre requisite software is installed on your system and is functional.
• Join our kubernetes channel on gitter

Following are the topics which would be covered as part of this course. Detailed course outline follows.

• Introduction to Openshift
• Openshift Quick Dive
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Application Stack Mapping
• Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Designing Production Grade Openshift Architecture
• Setup a Openshift Cluster
• Securing Openshift
• Openshift Administration

This is the detailed course outline with day wise list of contents

• Trainer, class and course introduction
• Pre Assessment Test

• What is Openshift?
• Kubernetes Vs Openshift
• Key Features
• Architecture

• Minishift
• Setup Minishift
• Create a Openshift environment
• Login and validate

• Projects
• Types of application deployments
  • Catalogue
  • Image
    • Image stream
    • Bring your own image
  • YAML files

• Deployments
• Pods
• Service
• Routes
• ConfigMaps
• Secrets
• Auto Scaling

• Image streams
• Builds
• Git Integration and auto tagging
• Pipelines and Jenkins integration
• Automated Delivery

• Components of Openshift
  • etcd
  • Masters and Nodes
  • Registry
  • Web console
• Achieving High Availability(HA)

• Types of Openshfit installations
• Provision nodes
• Installing Openshift with Ansible
  • Configuring inventory
  • Defining variables
  • Run a playbook
• Openshift Configuration
  • Master and Node configs
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
• Network Configuration
  • SDN with OpenVswitch
  • SDN plugins
  • Alternate configs
  • Packet flow
• Registry Configuration
• Web Console Configuration
• Persistent Storage
  • Storage plugins
  • PV, PVC, Storage Class, etc .,

• Authentication
• Authorization
  • RBAC
    • Cluster and Local Roles
    • Rules and Bindings
  • SSC
    • Security Context Constraints
  • Security considerations

• Quota
• Memberships
• Monitoring
• Logging