Openshift Basic Concepts: This workshop covers the basic concepts of OpenShift, including how to create and manage projects, users, and roles. It is intended for those who are new to OpenShift and want to learn the basics. OpenShift Basics

OpenShift Virtualization Basics_: This lab focuses on how to create and use virtual machines with OpenShift Virtualization. It covers the most common tasks you would be expected to perform as a VM user/administrator.

Comparing VMware concepts to OpenShift Virtualization_: This lab compares the concepts of VMware with those of OpenShift Virtualization. It is intended for those who are familiar with VMware and want to learn how to use OpenShift Virtualization.

High Level Overview of Architecture: This lab provides a high-level overview of the architecture of OpenShift Virtualization. It covers the components and how they interact with each other.

Storage with CSI_: This lab focuses on how to use Container Storage Interface (CSI) with OpenShift Virtualization. It covers how to create and manage storage for virtual machines.

Networking with OpenShift Virtualization_: This lab focuses on how to use networking with OpenShift Virtualization. It covers how to create and manage networks for virtual machines.

Day 2 and Lifecycle management: This lab focuses on how to manage the lifecycle of virtual machines with OpenShift Virtualization. It covers how to create, update, and delete virtual machines, as well as how to manage their resources.

Customize Virtual Machines: One of the most important concepts when running virtual machines is to run the VMs from an existing disk image and also have the capability to customize the VMs.

Windows Virtual Machines: Microsoft Windows Server is a commonly used operating system, no virtualization solution would be complete if it wasn’t supported! This lab shows one method of provisioning a Windows Server virtual machine, including customization with SysPrep.

Bare metal OpenShift overview: Managing OpenShift nodes and resources is different than you might be used to. This module explores some aspects and concepts of OpenShift that are important if you’re responsible for the server hardware.

Network Management: Virtual machines, by default, connect to the OpenShift internal software defined network. This section will demonstrate how to connect VMs to an external physical network, such as a VLAN.

Storage Management: This module will introduce you to the basics of storage on OpenShift and how OpenShift Virtualization automatically provides boot sources for some machine images. This module will also show how to perform operations with snapshots and how to clone a VM.

Backup and Restore: Protecting virtual machines, and their data, is just as important as the performance and availability. See how the OpenShift API for Data Protection (OADP) provides a storage agnostic way to protect VMs in this lab.

Exposing apps using a Route: This lab walks through the process of using a Service and Route to provide internal-only connectivity between application components, then expose only the application’s front end to the world.

Exposing apps using MetalLB: Providing connectivity to VM-hosted applications, without putting the VM on an external L2 network, is a powerful way to manage connectivity to the application. This lab walks through the process of exposing just the database to the world, without connecting the VM to the external network.

OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift; it is not an add-on or a separate product and is included with all entitlements.

All current and future subscribers receive OpenShift Virtualization as part of their OpenShift subscription. It has been generally available since OpenShift 4.5.

OpenShift Virtualization is based on the “container-native virtualization” technology being developed upstream under the KubeVirt project, a sandbox project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

It leverages the Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM hypervisor, which is a mature and highly performant open-source hypervisor used by many organizations and cloud service providers globally and which has been under development for over 15 years.

OpenShift Virtualization leverages the RHEL KVM hypervisor and allows the VM to be managed by Kubernetes and KubeVirt. An OpenShift Virtualization VM uses Kubernetes scheduling, network, and storage infrastructure.

OpenShift Virtualization includes entitlements for unlimited virtual RHEL guests. Guest licensing for other supported operating systems will need to be purchased separately.

OpenShift Virtualization is SVVP certified with Microsoft for Windows guest support per the same rules that apply to Red Hat’s other KVM virtualization offerings.

OpenShift Virtualization is mainly supported on bare metal physical servers, typically on-premises or dedicated hosting. Support for other topologies (OpenShift on virtualized infrastructure like RHV or vSphere) is not supported at this time, but we are in the process to add support for Managed OpenShift Cloud services. Support for AWS / ROSA has already been announced: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/managing-virtual-machines-and-containers-as-code-with-openshift-virtualization-on-red-hat-openshift-service-on-aws