Technical requirements
For a deeper understanding of the topics described in this chapter, the reader is expected to have some familiarity with the following technologies and concepts:
- The Linux operating system and its security primitives
- Cloud-native approaches to developing software services
- Virtualization, containerization, and Docker technologies
- Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is highly recommended)
- Storage provisioning and filesystems
- Security hardening of web applications, Linux hosts, and containers
- The Kubernetes operator pattern (highly recommended)
- The kubectl and oc command-line utilities, as well as the YAML and JSON formats needed to work with Kubernetes objects
- An existing Cloud Pak for Data installation on an OpenShift Kubernetes cluster, with administration authority
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