Overview
Create and manage virtual machines on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator.
Managing Virtual Machines with OpenShift Virtualization teaches the essential skills required to create and manage virtual machines (VM) on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator. This Red Hat course does not require previous knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.
This course provides:
- Skills required to create, access, and manage VMs on OpenShift clusters.
- Skills required to control usage and access of cpu, memory, storage, and networking resources from VMs using the same Kubernetes features that would also control usage and access to these resources for containers.
- Sample architectures to manage High Availability (HA) of VMs using standard Kubernetes features and extensions from OpenShift Virtualization.
- Strategies to connect VMs on OpenShift to data center services outside of their OpenShift cluster, such as storage and databases.
Skills Covered
- Create VMs from installation media and disk images.
- Access text and graphical consoles of a VM.
- Connect to VMs using Kubernetes networking (services, ingress, and routes)
- Provision storage to VMs using Kubernetes storage (PVC, PV, and storage classes).
- Start, pause, and stop VMs.
- Clone and snapshot VMs.
- Connect VMs to external and extra networks (outside of the Kubernetes pod and service networks).
- Connect VMs to host storage and external storage.
- Ansible management of VMs.
- Create VMs from VM Templates.
Who Should Attend
- Virtual Machine Administrators interested in moving virtualized workloads from traditional Hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization.
- Kubernetes Administrators (Cluster Administrators, Clusters Engineers) interested in supporting containerized and virtualized workloads in the same OpenShift cluster.
- Site Reliability Engineers interested in using GitOps and Ansible Automation to manage Virtual Machines on OpenShift.
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
- Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (DO180) and is recommended but not required.
Course Modules
Exam & Certification
Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization (EX316)
A Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization is able to deploy and manage virtual machines in a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment. The skills and knowledge associated with this certification can be applied to both self-managed editions of OpenShift as well as managed services editions like Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
A Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization is able to:
- Deploy the OpenShift virtualization operator
- Run and access virtual machines
- Configure Kubernetes networking for virtual machines
- Connect virtual machines to external networks
- Configure Kubernetes storage for virtual machines
- Manage virtual machine templates
- Manage virtual machine snapshots
- Clone virtual machines
- Perform virtual machine live migrations
- Perform node maintenance and OpenShift Virtualization updates
- Manage virtual machine load balancing with Kubernetes networking resources
- Configure health probes for virtual machines
- Prepare virtual machines for node failure
