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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

Network considerations

An OpenShift cluster uses an SDN layer to allow communication between workloads and cluster objects. The default plugin used with OpenShift at the time this book was written is OpenvSwitch (OvS), but OpenShift is also compatible (and supported) with the OVN-Kubernetes plugin. Check this link to better understand the differences between the plugins: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/networking/openshift_sdn/about-openshift-sdn.html#nw-ovn-kubernetes-matrix_about-openshift-sdn.

Within the SDN, there are two virtual subnets—the first one has the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that a Pod inside the cluster uses, while the second is always used when you create a service object. The default values for these subnets are listed in the following table:

Important Note

The preceding ranges are customizable during the platform installation process only! You cannot modify these after installation.

Make sure these...