Course description

A developer introduction to building and managing containers with Podman for deploying applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Development I: Introduction to Containers with Podman (DO188) introduces students to building, running, and managing containers with Podman and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. This course helps students build the core skills for developing containerized applications through hands-on experience. This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.6 and OpenShift® Container Platform 4.10. The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers exam (EX188) is included in this offering.

Course content summary

• Introduction to containers
• Run containers with Podman
• Build custom container images
• Manage container images
• Remote debugging with containers
• Basic container networking
• Persist data with containers
• Run multi-container applications
• Troubleshoot Container Deployments
• Orchestrate containers with OpenShift and Kubernetes

Audience for this course

Developers and Site Reliability Engineers that are new to container technology.

Study points for the exam

Introduction and overview of containers
Describe how containers facilitate application development.

Podman basics
Manage and run containers with Podman.

Container images
Navigate container registries to find and manage container images.

Custom container images
Build custom container images to containerize applications.

Persisting data
Build persistent databases.

Container networking
Describe basic container networking and how to access containerized services.

Troubleshooting containers
Analyze container logs and configure a remote debugger.

Multi-container applications with compose
Run multi-container applications using Compose.

Container orchestration with Kubernetes and OpenShift
Orchestrate containerized applications with Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Impact on the organization

A container-based architecture improves application reliability, scalability, and facilitates continuous integration and continuous deployment. This course provides the foundation needed for OpenShift development and is the entrypoint to digital transformation through application containerization.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

As a result of attending this course, you will understand the foundations of container-based application development. You will be able to run, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications. This course is the starting point for the OpenShift developer curriculum and provides the foundation you will need to advance to cloud-native developer courses.