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OpenShift Multi-Cluster Management Handbook

By : Giovanni Fontana, Rafael Pecora
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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

What is GitOps?

The term GitOps was first described by Lexis Richardson, CEO of Weaveworks, in 2017. At that time, he presented the four principles of GitOps, which are as follows:

  • The entire system is described declaratively: This means that any configuration of your application and infrastructure needs to be treated as code, but not as a set of instructions, as you would with scripts or automation code. Instead, you must use a set of facts that describes the desired state of your system. These declaration files are versioned in Git, which is your single source of truth. The great benefit of this principle is that you can easily deploy or roll back your applications and, more importantly, restore your environment quickly if a disaster occurs.
  • The canonical desired system state is versioned in Git: Git is your source of truth. It needs to be the single place that triggers all the changes in your systems. Ideally, nothing should be done directly on the systems, but through...