Red Hat SummitChapter 14. Installing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
The Oracle® Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform provides services that can meet your needs for regulatory compliance, performance, and cost-effectiveness. You can use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resource Manager to provision and configure OCI resources.
The Assisted Installer supports cluster installation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for these OpenShift Container Platform versions:
- From OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 and later, you can install a cluster on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtual machine by using your own infrastructure.
- From OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 and later, you can also install a cluster on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure bare-metal machine.
Bare-metal installations that use iSCSI boot drives require a secondary vNIC that is automatically created in the Terraform stack provided by Oracle.
The following sections show the OCI deployment options and their supported infrastructure in OpenShift Container Platform. Each infrastructure can have both VM and bare-metal servers.
14.1. Installing on Oracle Distributed Cloud
You can use the Assisted Installer to install an OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) cluster on the following Oracle® Distributed Cloud infrastructure:
| Infrastructure | Description | Certified from | Support status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial Public Cloud | Standard global OCI regions accessible to all customers. | RHOCP 4.14 | General Availability |
| Dedicated Region | A complete OCI region hardware and software stack located in a customer data center. | RHOCP 4.14 | General Availability |
| US Government Cloud | Physically isolated regions for US public sector, meeting FedRAMP High and DoD requirements. | RHOCP 4.20 | Technology Preview |
| UK Government Cloud | Dedicated UK regions for public sector, ensuring data residency and UK-citizen operations. | RHOCP 4.20 | Technology Preview |
| EU Sovereign Cloud | EU-based regions operated by EU residents to meet strict European data privacy standards. | RHOCP 4.20 | Technology Preview |
| Isolated Region | Air-gapped regions disconnected from the internet for top-secret/national security workloads. | RHOCP 4.20 | Technology Preview |
| Oracle Alloy | A partner-operated platform that allows third-party providers to offer their own branded OCI services. | RHOCP 4.20 | Technology Preview |
For installation instructions, see Installing a cluster on Oracle Distributed Cloud by using the Assisted Installer.
The installation of OpenShift Container Platform on US Government Cloud, UK Government Cloud, EU Sovereign Cloud, Isolated Region, and Oracle Alloy infrastructures is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.
For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/.
14.2. Installing on Oracle Edge Cloud
You can use the Assisted Installer to install an OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) cluster on the following Oracle® Edge Cloud infrastructure:
| Infrastructure | Description | Certified from | Support status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Cloud Appliance | A customer-managed, rack-scale engineered system for on-premise private cloud modernization. | RHOCP 4.18 | General Availability |
| Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer | An Oracle-managed compute rack in the customer’s data center that consumes OCI services via subscription. | RHOCP 4.18 | General Availability |
| Roving Edge | Robust, portable tactical nodes for compute and storage in remote or mobile environments. | RHOCP 4.20 | Technology Preview |
For installation instructions, see Installing a cluster on Oracle Edge Cloud by using the Assisted Installer.
The installation of OpenShift Container Platform on a Roving Edge device is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.
For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/.
14.3. Installing on Oracle Database Appliance
Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is an engineered system designed to simplify the deployment, management, and support of Oracle databases. It includes built-in KVM virtualization and can host application virtual machines, such as Red Hat OpenShift control plane and worker nodes, alongside database workloads.
You can install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster on Oracle Database Appliance by using the Assisted Installer. This deployment is available for OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 and later releases.
For installation instructions, see Installing on Oracle Database Appliance.
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