Red Hat OpenShift essentials
Self-managed for Administrators
Explore a collection of curated resources that help you complete common Red Hat® OpenShift® tasks and take your product knowledge to the next level.
This content is curated by Red Hat experts but it may not be tested on every supported configuration.
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Community
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Red Hat OpenShift Commons community slack
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Get started
Accomplish Day 1 tasks using these resources.
Red Hat OpenShift for IT Operations
Read how Red Hat OpenShift can help teams improve their IT operations.
What’s Red Hat OpenShift
Learn more about what OpenShift can do.
OpenShift architecture overview
Learn about the components in an OpenShift Container Platform deployment.
OpenShift onboarding checklist
Read 5 steps to get started with OpenShift.
Ops without apps is meaningless
Watch a conversation about the technical and non-technical tasks for administrators to grow their presence in the company and show the value of OpenShift.
Installation
Installation overview
Read about the different options for installing OpenShift Container Platform.
CLI tools
Learn how to use the command-line tools for OpenShift Container Platform
Agent-based Installer
Hear how the Agent-based installer facilitates getting the first cluster up and running in your environment.
Cluster setup and configuration
Post-installation configuration overview
Complete Day 2 operations for OpenShift Container Platform.
Authentication and authorization
Configure user authentication and access controls for users and services.
Networking
Configure and manage cluster networking.
Storage
Configure and manage storage in OpenShift Container Platform.
Registry management
Configure registries for OpenShift Container Platform.
Machine management
Add and maintain cluster machines.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Day 2 Operations (I)
In part one of two, learn about machine, node, and cluster-level configuration options to customize your deployment after installation.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Day 2 Operations (II)
In part two of two, hear experts review network and storage settings that you configure after installation.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Authentication and authorization
Watch experts do in-depth on the topics of authentication and authorization.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Is your cluster production-ready?
Familiarize yourself with the other things you should configure, prepare for, and educate your users on before putting your cluster into production.
Easy non-production test cluster setup
Watch this episode to learn how to quickly create a non-production OpenShift test cluster.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: DNS and Cluster Networking
Learn how DNS is used and configured for both Pods and nodes in the cluster.
Containers, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift tech overview
Learn the value of container technology, containerizing applications, and deploying them at scale on an OpenShift cluster in this free training.
Developing cloud-native applications with microservices
Learn how to combine different frameworks and tools into a microservices architecture that fits your organizational needs in this paid training.
Operators
Learn about Operators
Understand Operator basics in OpenShift Container Platform
Operator framework
Familiarize yourself with the Operator Framework, a collection of open source tools that help you develop and deploy operators.
Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM)
Hone your understanding of the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) to oversee the life cycle of all operators and their associated services running across your clusters.
OperatorHub
Explore the OperatorHub to discover and install operators.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: OLM Deep Dive
Take an in-depth look at the components of Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) and how they work together to manage your operators.
ING success story
How ING rates its workloads’ deployment quality and learning from outages
Product capabilities
Learn about more OpenShift features.
Maintaining your cluster
Introduction to OpenShift cluster updates
Update an OpenShift Container Platform cluster with a single operation by using the web console or the OpenShift CLI
Backup and Restore
Control plane backup and restore considerations
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Updates and Upgrades
What happens in an OpenShift update vs. an upgrade?
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Day 2 recommendations for every cluster
Better understand day 2 recommendations for OpenShift.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Optimizing resource utilization
Learn more about disaster recovery, memory allocation, creating namespaces, and more with OpenShift experts.
Best practices
Bring best practices to your day-to-day to make room for innovation.
Monitoring
Cluster logging
Use logging to collect, visualize, forward, and store log data to troubleshoot issues, identify performance bottlenecks, and detect security threats
Monitoring
Use metrics and customized alerts provided by the monitoring stack to track the health and performance of your applications
Network observability
Use the Network Observability Operator to observe and analyze network traffic flows for OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
Performance and scalability
Control plane best practices
Understand recommended performance and scalability practices for control planes in OpenShift Container Platform.
Infrastructure practices
Understand recommended performance and scalability practices for infrastructure in OpenShift Container Platform.
Etcd practices
Optimize etcd performance and scalability in OpenShift Container Platform.
Scalability and performance optimization: Storage
Optimize storage to minimize storage use across all resources.
Scalability and performance optimization: Routing
Optimize the OpenShift Container Platform HAProxy router.
Scalability and performance optimization: Networking
Optimize networking.
Scalability and performance optimization: CPU Usage
Optimize CPU usage with mount namespace encapsulation.
Security
Overview: Security and compliance
Learn about the security features in OpenShift Container Platform.
Security: Compliance Operator
Automate the inspection of numerous technical implementations and compare those against certain aspects of industry standards, benchmarks, and baselines.
Network policy
Define network policies that restrict traffic to pods in your cluster.
Using RBAC to define and apply permissions
Learn more about RBAC and cluster role binding and how to set them appropriately.
Introduction to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security
Learn more about Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and how it helps you secure your applications.
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security
Learn more about how Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security helps extend security from platform to applications.
Using the Compliance Operator with RHACS
Configure RHACS to use the Compliance Operator for compliance reporting and remediation with OpenShift.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Runtime security
Learn more about how RHACS helps with Runtime Security with OpenShift experts.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Vulnerability Management
Learn more about how RHACS helps with Vulnerability Management with OpenShift experts.
Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain
Learn how Trusted Software Supply Chain helps organizations build security into the components, processes, and practices in their software factory from the start.
Security customer stories
Cigna enhances Red Hat OpenShift security
Hear how Cigna enhanced OpenShift security with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and GitOps.
Modernize at scale
Embark on your modernization journey with these tools and resources.
Modernize using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
Migrate VMs from VMware vSphere to OpenShift Virtualization.
Virtualization and infrastructure migration technical overview
This free course covers the benefits of open source virtualization, how to better manage your virtualization assets, and the best way to move workloads.
Ask an OpenShift Admin (E89) | Dive into OpenShift Virtualization
Listen to OpenShift experts review OpenShift Virtualization capabilities and how it might fit into your application modernization strategy.
More modernization resources
Modernizing existing applications
Understand application modernization.
Migration Toolkit for Applications
Red Hat’s migration toolkit for applications helps simplify modernizing your legacy applications and is included in your Red Hat OpenShift subscription.
Migration Toolkit for Containers
The Migration Toolkit for Containers (MTC) enables you to migrate stateful application workloads in OpenShift.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Migration Toolkit for Containers
Listen to OpenShift experts discuss the Migration Toolkit for Containers.
How enterprises approach legacy application modernization
Gain more accurate insight into how organizations are approaching their modernization journeys.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: GitOps for Admins
Understand the basics of GitOps, and how it is beneficial for administrators to do cluster configuration.
Modernization customer stories
Volkswagen of America’s application modernization journey
Volkswagen shares their application modernization story.
Application Modernization at Advance Auto Parts
Advance Auto Parts shares their application modernization story.
Citizen Banks' journey to modernization
Citizen Bank’s application modernization story.
Managing clusters at scale
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security
Get information on how to extend security from platform to applications.
Specialized topics
Take your OpenShift learning to the next level.
Validated patterns
Learn about common scenarios and challenges faced by developers and architects, and proposed architectural solutions with Red Hat technologies.
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
What’s Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
OpenShift Service Mesh provides a uniform way to connect, manage, and observe microservices-based applications.
Learn about Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Learn the basics of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh.
OpenShift Service Mesh demo
Get up and running with Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh.
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
What’s OpenShift Serverless
Learn how OpenShift Serverless simplifies the development of hybrid cloud applications by eliminating the complexities associated with Kubernetes.
OpenShift Serverless
Learn about OpenShift Serverless features, including Functions, Serving, and Eventing.
SVA GmbH on using OpenShift Serverless
Learn more about how customers use OpenShift Serverless and benefit from it.
Red Hat Service Interconnect
Red Hat Interconnect Demo
Easily connect apps across clouds with Service Interconnect
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Introducing Service Interconnect
Ask an OpenShift Admin introduces Skupper.
Red Hat Edge
Red Hat Edge
Red Hat’s edge computing approach extends our hybrid cloud capabilities to help organizations innovate with flexible and security-focused edge technology.
Edge computing with Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift extends transformation from the hybrid cloud to the edge providing operational consistency while transforming edge locations and devices.
Red Hat Device Edge
Red Hat Device Edge is a flexible platform that consistently supports different workloads across small, resource-constrained devices at the farthest edge.
OpenShift’s flexibility: Our topologies for your topographies
Review the multiple topologies of Red Hat OpenShift and where each one fits in.
Red Hat Edge Platforms: More options for more use cases
Learn about Red Hat Edge Platforms and common use cases they can address.
Red Hat Device Edge
Read about Red Hat Device Edge, including Release Notes and the compatibility matrix
Ask an OpenShift Admin: OpenShift at the Edge
Hear OpenShift experts answer these questions: what is edge, what does it mean for OpenShift admins? Watch this video to find out.
Ask an OpenShift Admin: Datacenter to edge options
Watch this video to learn about datacenter to edge options.
Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain
Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain
Learn how Trusted Software Supply Chain helps organizations build security into the components, processes, and practices in their software factory from the start.
Red Hat OpenShift AI
Red Hat OpenShift AI
Red Hat OpenShift AI is a flexible, scalable AI/ML platform that enables enterprises to create and deliver AI-enabled applications at scale.
AI/ML on Red Hat OpenShift
AI/ML on Red Hat® OpenShift® accelerates AI/ML workflows and the delivery of AI-powered intelligent applications with self-managed Red Hat OpenShift, or our AI/ML cloud service.
Top 5 considerations for your AI/ML platform
Use this checklist to implement MLOps processes that help teams create data-driven applications in a security-focused and collaborative way.
Video demo: Computer vision and reinforcement learning
Learn how to use OpenShift AI and how it helps data scientists.
Red Hat OpenShift AI
Find product documentation for OpenShift AI users, administrators, and cluster administrators.
OpenShift AI customer stories
OpenShift AI at NASA
Learn how NASA and IBM have teamed up to create an AI Foundational Model for Earth Observations and why they chose Red Hat OpenShift AI.
Lockheed Martin - AI from training to edge with Microshift
Learn about the various AI use cases at Lockheed Martin and how they train models to deploy them at the edge.
