Chapter 6. Red Hat OpenShift Certification

User Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) involves ensuring that hardware supports a user-managed deployment model for Red Hat OpenShift. This approach provides flexibility, allowing organizations to tailor the infrastructure setup, deployment, and configuration to meet specific requirements. UPI certification guarantees that the certified hardware can support custom provisioning and advanced configurations.

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Installer Provisioned Infrastructure (IPI) focuses on hardware that supports automated deployment and provisioning, which the OpenShift installer manages directly. This approach simplifies deployment by allowing the installer to set up all required infrastructure components. Hardware certified for IPI ensures compatibility with automated provisioning, enabling faster and more consistent deployments.

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The Assisted Installer supports hardware that enables a guided deployment process for Red Hat OpenShift. It combines aspects of both UPI and IPI, offering a simplified, wizard-based installation to assist users with provisioning and deployment. Certified hardware confirms compatibility with assisted installation features that balance user control and automation.

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Networking capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform enable efficient and secure communication between containerized applications, clusters, and external systems. These capabilities support service discovery, load balancing, and multi-cluster communication to keep workloads resilient and scalable.

OpenShift networking integrates advanced technologies such as Fast Datapath to provide high-throughput, low-latency data transfer. This is essential for demanding, performance-sensitive workloads. Red Hat currently offers Fast Datapath certification by invitation only and conducts additional testing in collaboration with its networking team.

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