Red Hat OpenShift Development I: Introduction to Containers with Podman (DO188)

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. This course helps students build the core skills for developing containerized applications through hands-on experience. These skills can be applied using all versions of OpenShift, including Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), and OpenShift Container Platform.

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.

This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Podman 5 and Red Hat OpenShift 4.18.

Following course completion, hands-on lab access will remain available for up to 45 days for any live course that includes a virtual environment.

Note: This course is offered as a three day in classroom, a four day virtual class or self-paced.

Red Hat Learning Subscription COURSE Included with Your Purchase

Starting January 1, 2026, Red Hat introduces RHLS-Course a flexible subscription model now included with this catalog offering. This replaces the previous direct virtual class enrollment from Global Knowledge.

When you purchase this item, you ll receive an RHLS subscription at the course level, giving you the freedom to choose the schedule that works best and self-enroll in your selected class.

Your RHLS subscription includes:

• One live, instructor-led virtual session
• 12 months of self-paced learning access
• One certification exam with a free retake

Onsite Classroom-based sessions and closed course options remain unchanged.

1. Introduction and overview of containers
   
   • Describe how containers facilitate application development.
2. Podman basics
   
   • Manage and run containers with Podman.
3. Container images
   
   • Navigate container registries to find and manage container images.
4. Custom container images
   
   • Build custom container images to containerize applications.
5. Persisting data
   
   • Run database containers with persistence.
6. Troubleshooting containers
   
   • Analyze container logs and configure a remote debugger.
7. Multi-container applications with compose
   
   • Run multi-container applications using Compose.
8. Container orchestration with Kubernetes and OpenShift
   
   • Orchestrate containerized applications with Kubernetes and OpenShift.

• Some experience with web application architectures and their corresponding technologies is expected
• Experience in the use of a Linux terminal session, issuing operating system commands, and familiarity with shell scripting is recommended

Confirmation of the correct skill set knowledge can be obtained by passing the online skills assessment at Red Hat Skills Assessment

This course is intended for Developers and Site Reliability Engineers that are new to container technology.