Chapter 1. Post-installation configuration overview
After installing OpenShift Container Platform, a cluster administrator can configure and customize the following components:
- Machine
- Bare metal
- Cluster
- Node
- Network
- Storage
- Users
- Alerts and notifications
1.1. Configuration tasks to perform after installation
Cluster administrators can perform the following post-installation configuration tasks:
Configure operating system features: Machine Config Operator (MCO) manages
MachineConfigobjects. By using MCO, you can perform the following tasks on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster:-
Configure nodes by using
MachineConfigobjects - Configure MCO-related custom resources
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Configure nodes by using
Configure bare metal nodes: The Bare Metal Operator (BMO) implements a Kubernetes API for managing bare metal hosts. It maintains an inventory of available bare metal hosts as instances of the BareMetalHost Custom Resource Definition (CRD). The Bare Metal Operator can:
- Inspect the host’s hardware details and report them on the corresponding BareMetalHost. This includes information about CPUs, RAM, disks, NICs, and more.
- Inspect the host’s firmware and configure BIOS settings.
- Provision hosts with a desired image.
- Clean a host’s disk contents before or after provisioning.
Configure cluster features: As a cluster administrator, you can modify the configuration resources of the major features of an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. These features include:
- Image registry
- Networking configuration
- Image build behavior
- Identity provider
- The etcd configuration
- Machine set creation to handle the workloads
- Cloud provider credential management
Configure cluster components to be private: By default, the installation program provisions OpenShift Container Platform by using a publicly accessible DNS and endpoints. If you want your cluster to be accessible only from within an internal network, configure the following components to be private:
- DNS
- Ingress Controller
- API server
Perform node operations: By default, OpenShift Container Platform uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) compute machines. As a cluster administrator, you can perform the following operations with the machines in your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
- Add and remove compute machines
- Add and remove taints and tolerations to the nodes
- Configure the maximum number of pods per node
- Enable Device Manager
Configure network: After installing OpenShift Container Platform, you can configure the following:
- Ingress cluster traffic
- Node port service range
- Network policy
- Enabling the cluster-wide proxy
Configure storage: By default, containers operate using ephemeral storage or transient local storage. The ephemeral storage has a lifetime limitation. TO store the data for a long time, you must configure persistent storage. You can configure storage by using one of the following methods:
- Dynamic provisioning: You can dynamically provision storage on demand by defining and creating storage classes that control different levels of storage, including storage access.
- Static provisioning: You can use Kubernetes persistent volumes to make existing storage available to a cluster. Static provisioning can support various device configurations and mount options.
- Configure users: OAuth access tokens allow users to authenticate themselves to the API. As a cluster administrator, you can configure OAuth to perform the following tasks:
- Specify an identity provider
- Use role-based access control to define and supply permissions to users
- Install an Operator from OperatorHub
- Manage alerts and notifications: By default, firing alerts are displayed on the Alerting UI of the web console. You can also configure OpenShift Container Platform to send alert notifications to external systems.
