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Chapter 1. About networking for managed clusters

Learn about the Red Hat OpenShift Networking capabilities available on your Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS cluster, including network plugins, ingress, egress, and traffic management.

1.1. About networking for managed clusters
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To optimize network traffic management and security across hybrid clusters, configure Red Hat OpenShift Networking.

The Red Hat OpenShift Networking ecosystem of networking capabilities integrates ingress, egress, load balancing, high-performance throughput, security, and inter- and intra-cluster traffic management. The Red Hat OpenShift Networking ecosystem also provides role-based observability tools to reduce its natural complexities.

The following list details some of the most commonly used Red Hat OpenShift Networking features available on your cluster:

  • Cluster Network Operator for network plugin management.
  • Primary cluster network provided by OVN-Kubernetes, the default Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin.
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