Overview
The Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Exam (DO317) course provides essential skills for creating and managing virtual machines (VMs) on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator. This course is ideal for IT professionals looking to integrate virtualized workloads with containerized applications within the OpenShift platform. The Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization (EX316) exam is included.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
- Create and manage virtual machines on OpenShift clusters using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator.
- Control CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources for VMs using Kubernetes features.
- Implement high availability (HA) for VMs with Kubernetes features and OpenShift Virtualization extensions.
- Connect VMs to external data center services such as storage and databases.
- Manage VM updates, including cloning, snapshotting, and migration.
Prerequisites
- No previous knowledge of containers or Kubernetes is required.
- Basic understanding of virtualization concepts.
- Familiarity with OpenShift and Kubernetes is beneficial.
- Experience with managing virtualized workloads on traditional hypervisors is helpful.
- Red Hat OpenShift Administration I: Operating a Production Cluster (DO180) is recommended but not required.
Course Outline
- Explore features and use cases of OpenShift Virtualization.
- Understand the integration of VMs with OpenShift.
- Create, manage, inspect, and monitor VMs.
- Access text and graphical consoles of VMs.
- Configure Kubernetes network objects and external access for VMs.
- Utilize services, ingress, and routes for VM connectivity
- Set up node networking to link VMs to networks outside the cluster.
- Provision load balancer services for external access.
- Manage storage, disks, and persistent volumes for VMs.
- Provision storage using Kubernetes storage classes.