Chapter 2. Learn more about OpenShift Container Platform
Use the following sections to find content to help you learn about and better understand OpenShift Container Platform functions:
2.1. Architecture
| Learn about OpenShift Container Platform | Plan an OpenShift Container Platform deployment | Optional additional resources |
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2.2. Installation
Explore the following OpenShift Container Platform installation tasks:
| Learn about installation on OpenShift Container Platform | Optional additional resources |
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| Selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users | |
2.3. Other cluster installer tasks
| Learn about other installer tasks on OpenShift Container Platform | Optional additional resources |
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Install a cluster in a restricted network
| Learn about installing in a restricted network | Optional additional resources |
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| If your cluster uses user-provisioned infrastructure, and the cluster does not have full access to the internet, you must mirror the OpenShift Container Platform installation images. |
Install a cluster in an existing network
| Learn about installing in a restricted network | Optional additional resources |
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| If you use an existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or GCP or an existing VNet on Microsoft Azure, you can install a cluster |
2.4. Cluster Administrator
| Learn about OpenShift Container Platform cluster activities | Optional additional resources |
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| Optional cluster capabilities in OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 |
2.4.1. Managing and changing cluster components
Managing cluster components
| Learn about managing cluster components | Optional additional resources |
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| Manage compute and control plane machines with machine sets. | |
| Applying autoscaling to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster | |
| Manage ingress, API server, and service certificates | |
Changing cluster components
| Learn more about changing cluster components | Optional additional resources |
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| Use custom resource definitions (CRDs) to modify the cluster | |
2.5. Observe a cluster
| Learn about OpenShift Container Platform | Optional additional resources |
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2.6. Storage activities
| Learn about OpenShift Container Platform | Optional additional resources |
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2.7. Application Site Reliability Engineer (App SRE)
| Learn about OpenShift Container Platform | Deploy and manage applications | Optional additional resources |
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2.8. Developer
Develop and deploy containerized applications with OpenShift Container Platform. OpenShift Container Platform is a platform for developing and deploying containerized applications. Read the following OpenShift Container Platform documentation, so that you can better understand OpenShift Container Platform functions:
| Learn about application development in OpenShift Container Platform | Optional additional resources |
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| Getting started with OpenShift for developers (interactive tutorial) | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces) | |
| Configuring an OpenShift cluster by deploying an application with cluster configurations |
2.9. Hosted control planes
| Learn about hosted control planes | Optional additional resources |
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| Preparing to deploy | |
| Deploying hosted control planes | |
| Deploying hosted control planes in a disconnected environment | |
