The Getting Started with OpenShift for Developers workshop is an introduction to developing applications on OpenShift and is ideal to introduce the basics. The workshop is supported for OpenShift 4.8 and above and the following programming languages: Java, Node.js, Python, and .NET.

The workshop consists of the following topics:

• Using the OpenShift command line client and web console.
• Deploying an application using a pre-existing container image.
• Working with application labels to identify component parts.
• Scaling up your application in order to handle web traffic.
• Exposing your application to users outside of the cluster.
• Viewing and working with logs generated by your application.
• Accessing your application container and interacting with it.
• Giving access to other users to collaborate on your application.
• Deploying an application from source code in a Git repository.
• Deploying a database from the OpenShift service catalog.
• Configuring an application so it can access a database.
• Setting up web hooks to enable automated application builds.

Additional topics may also be covered relevant to the specific programming language used by the applications being deployed.

Video

You can find a transcript of this recording here.

Workshop

OpenShift 4.8

Within RHPDS, the catalog item is in the Workshops category and is called OCP4 - Getting Started Workshop. The instructor will provision one cluster for the entire workshop.

Details on the workshop content as well as full instructions on how to deploy and run the workshop once the cluster is available are here.

Source

The source code for the workshop guide is here. Be sure to select the branch that corresponds with the version of OpenShift that you want to use.

Self-Paced Learning

A shorter subset of the workshop content is available here.

You can also run this Lab in your OpenShift cluster or on Developer Sandbox for OpenShift following this guide.

Slides

Slides to present this workshop are available here