Deploying and Managing OpenShift 3.11 on a VMware Software-Defined Data Center
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Executive Summary
What is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Reference Architecture Summary
1. Components and Considerations
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1. 1.1. VMware SDDC Environment Considerations
2. 1.2. Installation Steps
3. 1.3. VMware Software Details
4. 1.4. Load Balancers
5. 1.5. DNS
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  1. 1.5.1. Application DNS
6. 1.6. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Components
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  1. 1.6.1. OpenShift Instances
    
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    1.6.1.1. Master Instances
    
    1.6.1.2. Infrastructure Instances
    
    1.6.1.3. Application Instances
  2. 1.6.2. etcd
  3. 1.6.3. Labels
    
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    1.6.3.1. Labels as Alternative Hierarchy
    
    1.6.3.2. Labels as Node Selector
7. 1.7. Software Defined Networking
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  1. 1.7.1. OpenShift SDN Plugins
8. 1.8. Ephemeral Container Storage
9. 1.9. Persistent Storage
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  1. 1.9.1. Storage Classes
    
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    1.9.1.1. Persistent Volumes
10. 1.10. Registry
11. 1.11. Aggregated Logging
12. 1.12. Aggregated Metrics
2. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Prerequisites
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1. 2.1. Networking
2. 2.2. Shared Storage
3. 2.3. Resource Pool, Cluster Name and Folder Location
4. 2.4. VMware vSphere Cloud Provider (VCP)
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  1. 2.4.1. Enabling VCP
  2. 2.4.2. The VCP Configuration File
5. 2.5. Docker Volume
6. 2.6. etcd Volume
7. 2.7. OpenShift Local Volume
8. 2.8. Execution Environment
9. 2.9. Preparations
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  1. 2.9.1. Deployment host
    
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    2.9.1.1. Creating an SSH Keypair for Ansible
    
    2.9.1.2. Enable Required Repositories and Install Required Playbooks
    
    2.9.1.3. Configure Ansible
    
    2.9.1.4. Prepare the Inventory File
10. 2.10. vSphere VM Instance Requirements for RHOCP
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  1. 2.10.1. Virtual Machine Hardware Requirements
11. 2.11. Set up DNS for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
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  1. 2.11.1. Confirm Instance Deployment
12. 2.12. Create and Configure an HAProxy VM Instance
13. 2.13. Enable Required Repositories and Packages to OpenShift Infrastructure
14. 2.14. OpenShift Authentication
15. 2.15. Node Verification
16. 2.16. Prior to Ansible Installation
17. 2.17. Installing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with VMware NSX-T (Optional)
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  1. 2.17.1. Installing the VMware NSX Container Plug-in (NCP)
    
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    2.17.1.1. NCP Docker Image
18. 2.18. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Prequisites Playbook
3. Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
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1. 3.1. Registry volume
4. Operational Management
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1. 4.1. oc adm diagnostics
2. 4.2. Using the Diagnostics Tool
3. 4.3. Running Diagnostics in a Server Environment
4. 4.4. Running Diagnostics in a Client Environment
5. 4.5. Ansible-based Health Checks
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  1. 4.5.1. Running Health Checks via ansible-playbook
6. 4.6. Running Health Checks via Docker CLI
5. Conclusion
A. Contributors
B. Deploying a vSphere VM Environment (Optional)
C. Configuring Masters
6. Configuring OpenShift Nodes for Cloud Provider
D. Deploying RHOCS storage for persistent storage
E. How to configure the cloud provider for multiple vCenter Servers
F. Troubleshooting Ansible by Red Hat
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Deploying and Managing OpenShift 3.11 on a VMware Software-Defined Data Center

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The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines and considerations for deploying and managing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on VMware Software-Defined Data Center.

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Deploying and Managing OpenShift 3.11 on a VMware Software-Defined Data Center

Davis Phillips

Joel Davis

Robbie Jerrom