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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

Infrastructure/cloud provider

As the OpenShift platform is integrated with the infrastructure or cloud provider, some prerequisites are also required, but for now, during the architecture design phase, you basically need to define which provider you will go for and be aware that they have specific prerequisites. We are not covering these pre requisites in this chapter, as this is going to be explained in depth in Chapter 5, OpenShift Deployment.

In that chapter, we will practice the deployment process itself, starting by preparing the infrastructure or cloud prerequisites, setting up installer parameters, storage, network, the virtualization/cloud layer, and so on. However, during the architecture design phase, in general, you don't need to go deeper into these details yet, but just choose which provider to go for and keep in mind some specifications you will have to fulfill for the provider you have chosen.