OpenShift for Developers: Technical Overview and Container Deployments

Transitioning to cloud-native development requires a solid understanding of how your code runs in containerized environments. OpenShift provides developers with a powerful platform to deploy, scale, and monitor applications efficiently without managing underlying infrastructure complexities. This text-based course equips you with the foundational knowledge to package applications, manage their lifecycle, and utilize modern container orchestration tools. You will learn how to move your code from a local environment to a running cloud-native application, ensuring stability and scalability. What you'll learn: Understand foundational container concepts and the core architecture of OpenShift; Deploy application source code directly using modern build workflows; Configure application health checks, environment variables, and persistent storage; Monitor application performance and troubleshoot deployment issues using platform logs; Apply GitOps principles to manage application updates and configuration changes systematically; Scale applications to handle varying traffic demands. Starting with fundamental definitions of containers and platform architecture, this course guides you through step-by-step written explanations and code configurations for deploying and maintaining applications. This course is designed for software developers and technical enthusiasts new to OpenShift, requiring no prior container orchestration experience. Begin your cloud-native journey today and master the basics of developer workflows on OpenShift.