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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

Technical requirements

As we are covering the architecture side of OpenShift in this chapter, you still don't need access to any specific hardware or software to follow this chapter, but this will be expected some chapters ahead. However, it is important you have some pre-existing knowledge of OpenShift and Kubernetes for you to achieve the best possible result from this chapter.

Prerequisites

This chapter is intended to be for Information Technology (IT) architects that already have some basic knowledge of Kubernetes or OpenShift use. That said, we are not covering in this chapter basic concepts such as what a Pod, Service, or Persistent Volume is. But if you don't know these basic concepts yet, don't freak out! We have prepared a list of recommended training and references for you in the last chapter of this book. We suggest you to take the Kubernetes Basics and Kube by Example before moving forward with this chapter.