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OpenShift Multi-Cluster Management Handbook

By : Giovanni Fontana, Rafael Pecora
5 (1)
Book Image

OpenShift Multi-Cluster Management Handbook

5 (1)
By: Giovanni Fontana, Rafael Pecora

Overview of this book

For IT professionals working with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the key to maximizing efficiency is understanding the powerful and resilient options to maintain the software development platform with minimal effort. OpenShift Multi-Cluster Management Handbook is a deep dive into the technology, containing knowledge essential for anyone who wants to work with OpenShift. This book starts by covering the architectural concepts and definitions necessary for deploying OpenShift clusters. It then takes you through designing Red Hat OpenShift for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, showing you different approaches for multiple environments (from on-premises to cloud providers). As you advance, you’ll learn container security strategies to protect pipelines, data, and infrastructure on each layer. You’ll also discover tips for critical decision making once you understand the importance of designing a comprehensive project considering all aspects of an architecture that will allow the solution to scale as your application requires. By the end of this OpenShift book, you’ll know how to design a comprehensive Red Hat OpenShift cluster architecture, deploy it, and effectively manage your enterprise-grade clusters and other critical components using tools in OpenShift Plus.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Design Architectures for Red Hat OpenShift
6
Part 2 – Leverage Enterprise Products with Red Hat OpenShift
11
Part 3 – Multi-Cluster CI/CD on OpenShift Using GitOps
15
Part 4 – A Taste of Multi-Cluster Implementation and Security Compliance
19
Part 5 – Continuous Learning

OpenShift Security

Throughout this book, you have been able to follow some important aspects that involve processes, people, and all the technology involved to maintain a powerful, resilient, and fault-tolerant platform. A product of this magnitude with a vast structure, from its creation to customizations that will keep it fully functional, also requires a great division of responsibilities and skills for each step taken.

Security has always been and will always be a top concern in any enterprise, even more so now with the advent of things such as ransomware, malicious crypto-mining, malware, and other types of attacks. According to a Gartner study, by 2025, 90% of organizations that don’t control public cloud usage properly will inadvertently share sensitive data. When it comes to Kubernetes security, we also have seen a number of vulnerabilities and attacks recently. In the Further reading section of this chapter, you can check out some vulnerabilities and security incidents...