Start Your OpenShift journey with OpenShift Interactive Learning Portal – FREE

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Update: O’Reilly has closed the public access of Katakoda labs. Please use the following resources 1. [Interactive labs for Red Hat OpenShift](https://www.redhat.com/en/interactive-labs/openshift) – Free labs 2. [OpenShift and Kubernetes learning](https://developers.redhat.com/learn/openshift) – Free courses and labs 3. [OpenShift Developer Sandbox](https://www.techbeatly.com/introduction-to-developer-sandbox-for-red-hat-openshift/)

As we know, OpenShift is the #1 Enterprise Kubernetes platform available in the market now. And OpenShift knowledge is one of the most demanding skills for an engineer in the DevOps track. But, like any other complex platform, OpenShift is built on several components and setting up a cluster is a bit tricky, especially for those without infrastructure knowledge. But thanks to Red Hat and katakoda platform, Red Hat Interactive Learning Portal is available for you with NO COST! Yes, its FREE !

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Visit openshift.katacoda.com now you can choose any section of the course. Click on Start Course and you will see several scenarios to learn.

Course Track in OpenShift Interactive Learning Portal

Let’s say, I want to learn about [Service Mesh](https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/microservices/what-is-a-service-mesh) in OpenShift, I will click on Start Course on Service Mesh Workshop with Istio .

Then you will reach a page where you can learn Service Mesh with different scenarios as below.

Service Mesh scenarios in OpenShift Interactive Learning Portal

Click on any of the scenario to start and it will launch a lab environment with detailed instruction set and guidelines in your browser itself. Means you dont even need to connect to any servers or install any software to access this lab.

Follow the instructions and complete the lab; you can easily copy paste commands in same web based console.

Note : katakoda is a platform for creating real-life lab environments, where trainers and vendors create lab and publish labs and users can simply access it and test your knowledge.

Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath is the founder of techbeatly. He is the co-author of The Kubernetes Bible, Second Edition and the author of Ansible for Real Life Automation. He has worked as a Systems Engineer, Automation Specialist, and content author. His primary focus is on AI, Ansible Automation, Containerization (OpenShift & Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). (Read more: gineesh.com)

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