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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

Adding secured clusters

Secured cluster is the term used to refer to a cluster under ACS management. ACS Central works as a control plane where you will create the policies and visualize violations, compliance, and all the features that we will walk through later in this chapter; while an ACS secured cluster is a set of ACS processes (AdmissionControl, Scanner, Sensor, and Collector) that run on managed clusters to monitor and enforce policies.

Figure 12.14 – ACS Central/secured cluster

The process of adding secured clusters on ACS Central comprises the following steps:

  1. Generate an init bundle on ACS Central.
  2. Run the init bundle.
  3. Create a SecuredCluster custom resource in the ACS operator.

To perform the previous steps and add a secured cluster, run the following steps in ACS Central:

  1. Access the Platform Configuration | Integrations menu:

Figure 12.15 – Generating an init bundle

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