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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

Requirements

This is a practical chapter in which you will deploy an OpenShift cluster using what we consider to be the most complex deployment procedure: the User-Provisioned Installer (UPI)/agnostic installation.

The source code used in this chapter is available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/OpenShift-Multi-Cluster-Management-Handbook/tree/main/chapter05.

As we already covered in this book, there are many different types of installations and supported providers, and it is almost impossible to cover every combination of them – neither is it our intention, as there is plenty of documentation, tutorials, and great references on the internet that will guide you through all types of installations.

That said, we understand that the most-added-value deployment procedure we can bring to you is the UPI/agnostic one; when you make it, you will be able to understand and easily execute the other types of installations. The reason for this is simple: with the UPI/agnostic...