OpenShift Library: Administrator View (Self-Managed)

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Chapter 0: Community

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Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter 1A. Getting started with the platform for cluster admins

Chapter 1B. Installing

Chapter 1C. Configuring and cluster setup

  1. It’s important to have good, robust conversations with your development teams that use the application platform. Here are some questions to ask your developers when introducing a new workload to the platform:
  2. Post-installation configuration overview
  3. Authentication and authorization
  4. Networking
  5. Storage
  6. Registry Management
  7. Machine Management

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Chapter 1D. Operators for infrastructure:

Let’s begin with Red Hat OpenShift operators. Operators are among the most important components of Red Hat OpenShift because they ease the operational complexities of running software. Follow these steps to realize the life cycle management capabilities of operators:

  1. Familiarize yourself with the Operator Framework, a collection of open source tools that help you develop and deploy operators.
  2. Hone your understanding of the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) to oversee the life cycle of all operators and their associated services running across your clusters.
  3. Explore the OperatorHub to discover and install operators.
  4. Ask an OpenShift Admin: OLM Deep Dive
  5. Learn more about Operators

Along with a lot of cool operators, your developers also get full self-service capabilities to deploy code to existing software development pipelines. Developers and architects can deploy, manage, and build their code with a stable, scalable application platform and less complexity. It’s also a good idea to encourage your developers to join the Red Hat Developer program for tools, technologies, and community to level up their knowledge and career.

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Chapter 2: Learn about product capabilities

Chapter 2A. Maintaining your cluster:

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Chapter 3: Continue your education and discover best practices:

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Chapter 3A. Best practices for cluster admins:

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  • Red Hat® Summit session: Cigna enhances Red Hat OpenShift® security with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and GitOps

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Chapter 4: Modernize at scale:

Traditional applications typically require significant time, effort, and money to maintain. These applications are not easily adaptable to meet changing business requirements, and organizations are modernizing now to realize these 5 benefits:

  1. Greater agility: Flexibility to take advantage of new revenue opportunities
  2. Increased speed: Delivering innovative applications, services, and features in less time
  3. Reduced costs: Lower operations, development, and infrastructure costs and technical debt
  4. Improved security: Realigned security posture with new technologies and integrations
  5. More reliability: Reduced mean time to recovery for failed applications and services

Red Hat’s migration toolkit for applications helps simplify the modernization of your legacy applications and is included in your Red Hat® OpenShift® subscription.

Chapter 4A. Modernize using OpenShift virtualization

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More modernization resources:

  • In-person event: Modern Application Development Roadshow (request a roadshow by emailing MADroadshow@redhat.com)
  • Topic page: Application modernization
  • Report: How enterprises approach legacy application modernization

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Chapter 4B. Managing Clusters at scale:

Red Hat® OpenShift® Cluster Manager is a managed service on Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, where you can create, operate, and upgrade all of your Red Hat OpenShift clusters from a single dashboard. Integrated with OpenShift Cluster Manager, these services deliver insights and recommendations for managing your clusters.

  • Red Hat Insights Advisor: View availability, performance, and stability risks so you can avoid potential problems and downtime.
  • Subscriptions: Get a historical look-back at your subscription usage and make forward-facing decisions, based on your remaining subscription capacity.
  • Cost management: Understand and track costs for clouds and containers.
  • Learn more about how Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security helps extend security from platform to applications
  • Learn more about how Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management helps you manage multiple clusters across different environments, gives you a unified view into your fleet along with policy and governance at scale

Chapter 5: Specialized Topics

Validated Patterns are an evolution of how you deploy applications in a hybrid cloud. With a pattern, you can automatically deploy a full application stack through a GitOps-based framework. With this framework, you can create business-centric solutions while maintaining a level of Continuous Integration (CI) over your application.

Learn about common scenarios faced by developers and architects, its challenges and proposed architectural solutions with Red Hat technologies. Here you can find solutions for a diverse set of use cases on cloud adoption and application modernization, including background story, reference architecture, technical implementation of the solution and much more. Leverage Red Hat-provided Solutions Patterns for cloud-native applications.

Chapter 5A. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh:

Chapter 5B. Red Hat Serverless:

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Chapter 5C. Red Hat Service Interconnect:

Chapter 5D. Red Hat Edge:

Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain:

Chapter 5E. Red Hat OpenShift AI

Learn about how other OpenShift users are leveraging AI to accelerate innovation:

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