OpenShift Days - Ops Track

Why This Workshop Exists

Every ops team hits the same wall with Kubernetes: the cluster is running, but who handles authentication? How do you back up a namespace someone accidentally deleted? What happens when pods crash at 2am and nobody knows where to look?

OpenShift answers those questions with built-in tooling — monitoring, backup, security, identity management, autoscaling, and a web console that makes troubleshooting visual instead of a guessing game with kubectl describe. This workshop lets you use all of it on a live cluster.

What You’ll Actually Do

Every module is hands-on. You won’t just read about features — you’ll break things on purpose and fix them, diagnose real failure modes, configure production security, and see what OpenShift looks like when things go wrong (and how fast you can recover).

This workshop is modular. Your session has been customised with a specific set of modules — only the ones shown in the navigation on the left are available in your environment. The full catalog includes:
Area What you’ll do

Platform Fundamentals

Verify cluster health, read etcd dashboards, understand what can and can’t be changed after installation, deploy an app and expose it in 30 seconds

Application Operations

Deploy workloads, break a readiness probe on purpose and diagnose the failure, scale with HPA under real load, configure network policies with deny-all baselines

Identity & Access

Integrate LDAP and OIDC authentication, sync groups, test RBAC by logging in as different users and seeing what they can and can’t do

Day 2 Operations

Create alerting rules and read the firing alerts view, set up logging and filter by severity during an incident, back up a namespace, delete it, and restore it from backup

Advanced Capabilities

Run a VM alongside containers and live-migrate it between nodes, take and restore snapshots, manage multiple clusters with ACM, scan for vulnerabilities with ACS

Developer Productivity

Register applications in the Developer Hub catalog, understand how golden path templates replace ops tickets with developer self-service

Your Environment

You have full cluster admin access to a production-grade OpenShift cluster with operational tooling pre-installed and ready to use.

Workshop Interface

Your workshop runs in a split-panel interface:

  • Left panel — Workshop instructions (what you’re reading now)

  • Right panel — Tabbed workspace with direct access to your cluster tools

  • Draggable divider — Drag the border between panels to resize them

Tabs

Along the top of the right panel you’ll find tabs for each tool deployed in your environment:

Tab What it is

OCP Console

The OpenShift web console — your primary GUI for cluster management, monitoring dashboards, and troubleshooting.

Terminal

A web-based terminal pre-connected to your cluster. Run oc commands directly — no local setup needed.

RHACS

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security — vulnerability scanning, compliance, and runtime security.

Quay

Red Hat Quay — enterprise container registry with image scanning and access control.

ArgoCD

OpenShift GitOps — continuous delivery using GitOps principles.

Developer Hub

Red Hat Developer Hub — developer portal with software catalogs and self-service templates.
Switch between tabs as you work through modules. Some exercises use the terminal, others use the web console or a specific tool’s UI.

Clickable Commands

Throughout this workshop, you’ll see highlighted command blocks. Click on them to automatically switch to the Terminal tab and execute the command.

Verify Access

Click the commands below to confirm you’re connected:

oc whoami

You should see your admin user.

oc get nodes

You should see your cluster nodes in Ready status.

oc get clusterversion

This confirms your cluster version and update channel.

Ready?

Select the first module from the navigation on the left to get started.