AD258 – Introduction to Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 8
An introduction of the features provided by Red Hat JBoss EAP 8, and how to perform basic management of EAP 8 services.
Course description
An introduction of the features provided by Red Hat JBoss EAP 8, and how to perform basic management of EAP 8 services.
Introduction to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 introduces you to the features of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 8. Through hands-on labs, learn some essential, real-world tasks that a system administrator needs to know to effectively deploy and manage applications on JBoss EAP.
Prerequisites
- Basic experience in Linux is required, or completion of the Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) course
- Basic programming concepts related to Java, and JakartaEE/JavaEE specifications is required, or completion of the Red Hat Application Development I: Programming in Java EE (AD183) course
- Basic JBoss EAP administration experience is required
- Basic Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes experience is required
Audience
- System Administrators that manage Java application servers
- Developers that create JakartaEE applications
- Automation Architects, Cloud Administrators, and Platform Engineers that design and automatize the organization’s Java applications infrastructure
Outline
Install and manage a Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform server, and explore a key set of the latest features that it provides
Describe the main issues to consider in a migration to JBoss EAP 8
Analyze applications, measure migration efforts, and refactor Java package names by using the Migration Toolkit for Applications (MTA)
Migrate server configurations from previous JBoss EAP versions by using the JBoss EAP Server Migration Tool
Describe the JBoss EAP security architecture, and learn to use Elytron tools
Identify legacy security components that need to migrate to Elytron, and use the Elytron CLI tool to help with the migration
Configure and manage TLS connections on JBoss EAP servers to applications and to the management interfaces
Configure role-based authorization for all the exposed interfaces on a JBoss EAP server
Deploy JBoss EAP applications on hybrid clouds, including public clouds and container-based OpenShift environments, by using either the Maven plug-in or a Helm chart
Configure JBoss EAP applications and trim the capabilities of their JBoss EAP runtimes on OpenShift in order to optimize performance and improve security, by using environment variables and Helm charts
Install the JBoss EAP operator on OpenShift, and use it to deploy and monitor JBoss EAP applications
