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This series walks you from zero to production-ready on ROSA, without assuming deep OpenShift experience.

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Series Overview

Part 1 – What Is ROSA and When Should You Use It?

• What ROSA is (plain English)
• How it compares to EKS
• Common enterprise & government use cases
• Architecture overview

Part 2 – Prerequisites and Environment Setup

• AWS & Red Hat accounts
• IAM permissions
• Installing CLI tools
• Verifying access

Part 3 – Creating and Accessing a ROSA Cluster

• Cluster sizing choices
• Networking basics
• Logging in with oc
• Understanding projects, users, and roles

Part 4 – Deploying Your First Application

• Creating a project
• Deploying an app from an image
• Understanding deployments, pods, and services

Part 5 – Exposing Applications with Routes and Load Balancers

• OpenShift Routes explained
• AWS load balancer integration
• TLS and HTTPS basics

Part 6 – Scaling and Managing Applications

• Manual scaling
• Autoscaling basics
• Rolling updates

Part 7 – Security Best Practices for ROSA

• Security Context Constraints (SCCs)
• IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
• Network policies
• Image security

Part 8 – Monitoring, Logging, and Operations

• OpenShift monitoring
• AWS CloudWatch integration
• Day-2 operations tips

Part 9 – Production Readiness Checklist

• High availability
• Cost optimization
• Backup considerations
• Compliance notes

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Stay Tune as I start sharing my experience throughout this journey of OpenShift on AWS

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