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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

What is Red Hat ACM?

Red Hat ACM is a complete solution for Kubernetes multi-cluster management from a single pane that includes some other great features, making complex and time-consuming tasks a lot easier. Red Hat ACM provides a few main features, listed here:

  • Kubernetes multi-cluster management: Create, update, and delete Kubernetes clusters on-premises and in the cloud.
  • Multi-cluster observability: ACM can also provide observability for all clusters from a single point of view, enabling administrators to read, aggregate, and receive alerts on the clusters.
  • Governance using policies: Through Red Hat ACM, you can audit and enforce policies to apply anything you want in the clusters, from security to infrastructure and application-related stuff. This includes roles and access control, operators that must be installed, and security compliance rules.
  • Application management: Deploy applications from Git repositories or Helm into multiple clusters simultaneously...