OpenShift and Kubernetes Foundations: Deploying Cloud-Native Apps

Modern software delivery requires robust container orchestration, and OpenShift provides the enterprise-grade platform to build, deploy, and scale applications with ease. Understanding how to navigate this platform is essential for any aspiring DevOps professional or cloud engineer. This text-only course guides you from the fundamental principles of containerization to managing complex microservices architectures. You will gain a solid conceptual foundation and learn how to integrate essential tools for continuous integration, monitoring, and service networking. What you'll learn: Understand the core architecture of OpenShift and how it extends Kubernetes; Deploy and manage microservices applications on an enterprise PaaS; Build automated CI/CD workflows using Jenkins pipelines for seamless deployments; Configure application monitoring and observability using Prometheus; Apply traffic management and security policies using Istio service mesh; Implement modern GitOps practices to maintain consistent cluster states. The course starts with essential container concepts and basic cluster navigation before moving into deployment scenarios, pipeline automation, and advanced service networking. Designed for beginners to container orchestration and DevOps concepts, this course requires no prior experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes. Start reading today to build your cloud-native deployment skills and master enterprise container management.