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 PlatformPlan an OpenShift Container Platform deploymentOptional additional resources

Enterprise Kubernetes with OpenShift

Tested platforms

OpenShift blog

Architecture

Security and compliance

What’s new in OpenShift Container Platform

 

Networking

OpenShift Container Platform life cycle

 

Backup and restore

 

OpenShift Interactive Learning Portal

 

2.2. Installation

Explore the following OpenShift Container Platform installation tasks:

Learn about installation on OpenShift Container PlatformOptional additional resources

OpenShift Container Platform installation overview

Selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users

Installing a cluster in FIPS mode

 

2.3. Other cluster installer tasks

Learn about other installer tasks on OpenShift Container PlatformOptional additional resources

Check installation logs

 

Install Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image layering

Install a cluster in a restricted network

Learn about installing in a restricted networkOptional additional resources

About disconnected installation mirroring

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 networkOptional additional resources

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

Installing a cluster on GCP into a shared VPC

2.4. Cluster Administrator

Learn about OpenShift Container Platform cluster activitiesOptional additional resources

Understand OpenShift Container Platform management

Enable cluster capabilities

Optional cluster capabilities in OpenShift Container Platform 4.17

2.4.1. Managing and changing cluster components

Managing cluster components
Learn about managing cluster componentsOptional additional resources

Manage compute and control plane machines with machine sets.

 

Deploying machine health checks

 

Applying autoscaling to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster

 

Manage container registries

Red Hat Quay

Manage users and groups

 

Manage authentication

multiple identity providers

Manage ingress, API server, and service certificates

 

Manage networking

Manage Operators

 

Understanding Windows container workloads

 
Changing cluster components
Learn more about changing cluster componentsOptional additional resources

Updating a cluster

Use custom resource definitions (CRDs) to modify the cluster

Set resource quotas

set quotas

Prune and reclaim resources

 

Scale and tune clusters

 

2.5. Observe a cluster

Learn about OpenShift Container PlatformOptional additional resources

Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform (Jaeger)

 

Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry

 

About Network Observability

Monitoring overview

2.6. Storage activities

Learn about OpenShift Container PlatformOptional additional resources

Manage storage

 

Storage

 

2.7. Application Site Reliability Engineer (App SRE)

Learn about OpenShift Container PlatformDeploy and manage applicationsOptional additional resources
 

Projects

Getting Support

Architecture

Operators

OpenShift Knowledgebase articles

 

OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle

 

Blogs about logging

  

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 PlatformOptional additional resources

Getting started with OpenShift for developers (interactive tutorial)

Understand OpenShift Container Platform development

Red Hat Developers site

Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces)

Operators

Create container images

Images

odo

Developer-focused CLI

Viewing application composition using the Topology view

Exporting applications

Understanding OpenShift Pipelines

Create CI/CD Pipelines

Configuring an OpenShift cluster by deploying an application with cluster configurations

2.9. Hosted control planes

Learn about hosted control planesOptional additional resources

Hosted control planes overview

Versioning for hosted control planes

Preparing to deploy

Deploying hosted control planes

Deploying hosted control planes in a disconnected environment

Troubleshooting hosted control planes

Gathering information to troubleshoot hosted control planes

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