Design, build, and deploy containerized applications on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift Development II: Containerizing Applications (DO288) teaches you how to design, build, and deploy containerized software applications on an OpenShift cluster

Whether you are migrating existing applications or writing container-native applications, you will learn how to boost developer productivity powered by Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform, a containerized application platform that allows enterprises to manage container deployments and scale their applications using Kubernetes.

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

Course content summary

• Design containerized applications for OpenShift.
• Manage and trigger application builds using Source-to-Image (S2I).
• Customize an existing source-to-image base image.
• Deploy multi-container applications using Helm Charts.
• Create health checks to monitor and improve application reliability.
• Create and deploy cloud-native applications on OpenShift.

Audience for this course

• Enterprise application developers
• DevOps site reliability engineers

Recommended for this course

• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
• Complete Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (DO180), or have equivalent knowledge
• Being a Red Hat Certified System Administrator or having earned a higher certification is helpful for navigation and usage of the command line, but is not required

Technology considerations

• This course uses a lab environment provisioned in the Red Hat Online Learning (ROL) cloud.
• Internet access is required to run the exercises and labs.

Impact on the individual

You will learn about the fundamental concepts behind containerizing, scaling, deploying, and managing applications in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. You will acquire these skills:

• Design container images to containerize applications.
• Customize application builds and use Source-to-Image builds.
• Deploy multi-container applications.
• Implement health checks to improve system reliability.

Recommended next exam or course

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development exam (EX288)
• Building Resilient Microservices with Istio and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh (DO328)
• Red Hat Cloud-native Microservices Development with Quarkus (DO378)

Course Outline

Deploy and manage applications on an OpenShift cluster

Deploy applications using various application packaging methods to an OpenShift cluster and manage their resources.

Design containerized applications for OpenShift

Select a containerization method for an application and create a container to run on an OpenShift cluster.

Publish enterprise container images

Create an enterprise registry and publish container images to it.

Manage builds on OpenShift

Describe the OpenShift build process, in addition to triggering and managing builds.

Customize source-to-image builds

Customize an existing S2I base image and create a new one.

Deploy multi-container applications

Deploy multi-container applications using Helm charts and Kustomize.

Manage application deployments

Monitor application health and implement various deployment methods for cloud-native applications.

Build applications for OpenShift

Create, deploy, and integrate third-party applications on OpenShift.