This intensive three-day course introduces attendees to the OpenShift Platform as a Service. Through lectures and extensive hands-on labs, attendees will gain in-depth experience with OpenShift and its operation. The course focuses not only on the use of OpenShift but also on the underlying operations, including detailed examinations of the applied container and orchestration technologies. Day one of the course focuses on installation, operation, and use of OpenShift as a best of breed platform as a service. Day two follows with a detailed examination of container operation on OpenShift, exploring the image build, container management and Pod packaging aspects of OpenShift. Day three completes the course with a look at the dynamic aspects of container orchestration, including Pod management, service operations, networking, and stateful solutions. Upon course completion, attendees will have the knowledge and skill needed to begin working with OpenShift effectively and a base from which to begin tackling advanced OpenShift topics.