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What's new
  • Review release notes
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.22
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Observability
      • Optimize service
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.21
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • High availability
      • Network functions virtualization
      • Networking
      • Observability
      • Optimization
      • Release delivery
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.18
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Networking
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.17
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • High availability
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Networking
      • Observability
      • Optimize Service
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.16
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.15
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.14
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
      • Dashboard
      • Optimize Service
      • Migration
      • Hardware provisioning
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.13
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
        • Deprecated functionality
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.12
      • Advisory list
      • Control plane
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.11
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.10
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.9
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.8
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
        • Known issues
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Security and hardening
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.7
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Security and hardening
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.6
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.4
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.3
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.2
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.1
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0 GA
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • High availability
      • Storage
      • Dashboard
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0 Beta
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Storage
      • Release delivery
      • Integration test suite
Discover
  • Learn about the platform
  • OpenStack networking overview
Plan
  • Design the environment
    • Control plane topology options
    • Storage features and topologies
    • RHOCP cluster requirements
    • Data plane node requirements
    • Compute node requirements
    • Control plane high availability requirements
    • Register your subscriptions
    • Enable FIPS compliance
    • Bare-metal data plane node provisioning
  • Network planning
  • Storage planning
    • Persistent storage configuration
    • Storage technologies
    • Storage networks
    • Storage scalability
    • Storage access and administration
    • Storage security
    • Storage redundancy and disaster recovery
    • Storage management
    • RHOCP storage sizing
  • Large-scale deployment specifications
  • Best practices for large-scale deployment
Install
  • Deploy the cloud infrastructure
    • Cloud infrastructure deployment workflow
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks
      • Prepare RHOCP with isolated network interfaces
      • Attach service pods to the isolated networks
      • Configure MetalLB address pools for network VIPs
      • Define data plane networks for traffic isolation
    • Control plane deployment
    • Create and deploy the data plane
      • Verify your configuration before deployment
      • Create data plane Secret CRs
      • Create an OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR with pre-provisioned nodes
      • Deploy a data plane with unprovisioned nodes
      • Deploy the data plane
        • Redistribute renewed certificates to data plane nodes
      • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
    • Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage as a back end
      • Enable deferred deletion for volumes or images with dependencies
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage documentation
      • Create Ceph storage pools
      • Create a Ceph storage secret
      • Obtain the Ceph File System identifier
      • Configure the control plane to use Ceph
      • Configure the data plane to use Ceph
      • Configure an external Ceph Object Gateway for storage
      • Configure RGW with TLS for an external Ceph cluster
      • Troubleshoot Ceph RBD integration
    • Mount external files for configuration data
    • Configure block storage
      • Block Storage terminology
      • Block Storage enhancements
      • LVM device management
      • Configure block storage transport protocols
      • Configure initial defaults
      • Configure the Block Storage volume service
    • Image service configuration
      • Configure Block Storage as an Image service back end
      • Configure Object Storage as an Image service back end
      • Configure S3 as an Image service back end
      • Configure NFS as an Image service back end
      • Configure multistore for a single Image service API instance
      • Configure multiple Image service API instances
    • Object Storage configuration
      • Object Storage rings
      • External ring management
      • Ring partition power
      • Deploy Object Storage on OpenShift nodes with PersistentVolumes
      • Deploy Object Storage on external data plane nodes
      • Manage Object Storage rings externally with a single ConfigMap
      • Manage Object Storage rings externally with multiple ConfigMaps
      • Use swift-ring-builder with a container
      • Set Object Storage ring partition power values
    • Configure Shared File Systems
      • View storage back-end capacity for file system shares
      • Enable Shared File Systems
      • Configure native CephFS as a file share storage back end
      • Configure CephFS-NFS as a file share storage back end
      • Set up alternative share back ends
      • Configure share encryption with the Key Manager service
      • Configure multiple Shared File Systems back ends
      • Create availability zones for back ends
      • Change the allowed NAS protocols for file system shares
    • OpenStack Integration Test Suite validation
      • Example custom resource configuration
      • Enable OpenStack Integration Test Suite testing capability
      • Validate your OpenStack deployment with OpenStack Integration Test Suite
    • Access the cloud
  • Deploy in a disconnected environment
    • Mirror required Operators and images
    • Set up a Satellite registry for disconnected data plane nodes
  • Deploy across distributed zones
    • Infrastructure requirements for distributed zones
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare networks for distributed zones
    • Prepare storage for distributed zones
    • Create the distributed control plane
    • Create the distributed data plane
    • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
  • Deploy a network functions virtualization (NFV) environment
    • NFV ETSI architecture and components
    • NFV components
    • Supported configurations for NFV
    • NFV performance factors
    • CPU pinning for dedicated NFV performance
    • Huge pages for NFV memory optimization
    • Verify NFV requirements
    • SR-IOV deployment planning
    • Plan an OVS-DPDK deployment
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare networks for NFV
      • Required data center networks
      • NIC configurations for NFV
      • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks
        • Prepare RHOCP with isolated network interfaces
        • Attach service pods to the isolated networks
        • Configure MetalLB address pools for network VIPs
        • Define data plane networks for traffic isolation
    • Control plane deployment
    • Deploy the data plane for SR-IOV and DPDK
      • Create data plane Secret CRs
      • Create a custom SR-IOV Compute service
      • Create a custom OVS-DPDK Compute service
      • Create a set of data plane nodes with pre-provisioned nodes
      • Create a set of data plane nodes with unprovisioned nodes
      • OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR spec properties
      • Network interface configuration options
      • edpm-ansible variables for SR-IOV and OVS-DPDK
      • Custom network interface examples for NFV
      • Deploy the data plane
    • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
      • Diagnose service failures with job condition messages
    • Access the cloud
    • Tune performance for NFV
    • HCI data plane deployment with DPDK
  • Deploy a dynamic routing environment
    • Dynamic routing
    • Dynamic routing support matrix
    • Dynamic routing topology example
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare networks for dynamic routing
      • Default networks for BGP
      • Dynamic routing environment for distributed zones
      • Prepare RHOCP for BGP networks
      • Create the data plane network for BGP
    • Create the control plane
    • Create a data plane for dynamic routing
      • Create data plane Secret CRs
      • Create a pre-provisioned node set for dynamic routing
      • Create an unprovisioned node set for dynamic routing
      • OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR spec properties for dynamic routing
      • Deploy the data plane for dynamic routing
      • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
        • Diagnose service failures with job condition messages
    • Troubleshoot dynamic routing
      • Neutron OVN agent and FRRouting logs
      • Use VTY shell commands to troubleshoot BGP
  • Deploy a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment
    • Configure HCI nodes
    • Deploy Ceph on HCI data plane nodes
    • Scale HCI capacity
  • Deploy a distributed Compute node (DCN) environment
    • Distributed compute node architecture
    • Plan a DCN deployment
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Deploy the DCN control plane
    • Deploy a DCN node set
    • Verify image and volume operations across edge sites
    • Decommission a DCN edge site
    • Remove a DCN node
  • Deploy with routed spine-leaf network topology
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks
      • Prepare RHOCP with isolated network interfaces
      • Attach service pods to the isolated networks
      • Configure MetalLB address pools for network VIPs
      • Define data plane networks for traffic isolation
    • Control plane deployment
    • Create the data plane for a spine-leaf topology
    • Deploy the data plane
    • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
      • Diagnose service failures with job condition messages
    • Access the cloud
  • Deploy multiple RHOSO environments on a single RHOCP cluster
    • Plan the isolated networks for each namespace
    • Create the namespaces and the Secret CRs for each namespace
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks for each namespace
    • Create an environment for a namespace
Upgrade
  • Perform a minor update
    • Requirements for a successful update
    • Upgrade known issues
    • Apply kernel updates without rebooting Compute nodes
    • Consistent package content across multiple clouds
    • Safe checkpoints for pausing updates
    • Create data plane update files
    • Update OVN services on the control plane
    • Update OVN services on the data plane
    • Confirm control plane readiness for data plane updates
    • Complete data plane service updates
    • Complete the RabbitMQ update process
    • Update the operating system
    • Update strategies for Image Mode data plane nodes
    • Reboot updated Compute nodes
Migrate
  • Plan adoption from a RHOSP 17.1 deployment
    • Requirements for a successful adoption
    • Adoption limitations
    • Adoption workflow and task sequence
    • Expected adoption timelines and workload impact
    • Distributed Compute Node adoption requirements and workflow
    • Identity service authentication for adoption
    • Prepare Compute hosts with the systemd-container package
    • Configure the network for deployment
      • Retrieve the network configuration from your existing deployment
      • Plan your IPAM configuration
      • Configure isolated networks for the adopted environment
      • Spine-leaf network configuration for adoption
    • Storage requirements for adoption
      • Storage driver certification
      • Block Storage service adoption preparation guidelines
      • Block Storage service adoption limitations
      • RHOCP preparation for Block Storage service adoption
      • Block Storage service configuration conversion for adoption
      • CephFS through NFS changes for adoption
    • Prepare Red Hat Ceph Storage for adoption
      • Prepare the Red Hat Ceph Storage monitoring stack for migration
      • Prepare for the Red Hat Ceph Storage RGW migration
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage RBD migration preparation
      • Deploy a clustered Ceph NFS service to replace standalone NFS
    • Prepare Instance HA for adoption
      • Maintain Instance HA functionality after adoption
      • Disable Pacemaker monitoring on Compute nodes before adoption
  • Adopt a RHOSP 17.1 deployment
    • Configuration preservation for oc patch changes
    • Migrate TLS-e certificates to preserve encrypted communications
    • Migrate databases to preserve service data on the control plane
      • Retrieve service configuration to ensure database accuracy
      • Deploy back-end services
      • Configure a Ceph back end for storage continuity
      • Stop Red Hat OpenStack Platform services to prevent data inconsistencies
      • Migrate databases to MariaDB instances to preserve service data
      • Migrate OVN data to preserve network configuration
    • Adopt Red Hat OpenStack Platform control plane services
      • Adopt the Identity service
      • Configure OIDC federation for the Identity service
      • Configure LDAP with domain-specific drivers
      • Adopt the Key Manager service
      • Adopt the Key Manager service with HSM integration
      • Adopt the Networking service
      • Configure control plane networking for spine-leaf to enable cross-site communication
      • Adopt the Object Storage service
      • Adopt the Image service
      • Adopt the Placement service
      • Adopt the Bare Metal Provisioning service
      • Adopt the Compute service
      • Adopt the Block Storage service
      • Adopt the Dashboard service
      • Adopt the Shared File Systems service
      • Adopt the Orchestration service
      • Adopt the Load-balancing service
      • Adopt the Telemetry service
      • Adopt the DNS service
      • Adopt autoscaling services
    • Roll back the control plane adoption to restore your environment
    • Adopt the data plane
      • Stop infrastructure management and Compute services
      • Adopt Compute services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Configure data plane node sets for DCN sites
      • Adopt Compute services with DCN back ends
      • Perform a fast-forward upgrade on Compute services
      • Adopt Networker services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Enable the high availability for Compute instances service
    • Migrate the Object Storage service
      • Migrate the Object Storage service data from RHOSP to RHOSO nodes
  • Adopt a 17.1 director Operator environment
    • Configuration preservation for oc patch changes
    • Reduce director Operator Controllers to one node for adoption
    • Set up the environment for director Operator workloads
    • Migrate TLS-e certificates to preserve encrypted communications
    • Migrate databases to preserve service data on the control plane
    • Remove director Operator resources to prepare for database adoption
    • Adopt Red Hat OpenStack Platform control plane services
      • Adopt the Identity service
      • Configure OIDC federation for the Identity service
      • Configure LDAP with domain-specific drivers
      • Adopt the Key Manager service
      • Adopt the Key Manager service with HSM integration
      • Adopt the Networking service
      • Configure control plane networking for spine-leaf to enable cross-site communication
      • Adopt the Object Storage service
      • Adopt the Image service
      • Adopt the Placement service
      • Adopt the Bare Metal Provisioning service
      • Adopt the Compute service
      • Adopt the Block Storage service
      • Adopt the Dashboard service
      • Adopt the Shared File Systems service
      • Adopt the Orchestration service
      • Adopt the Load-balancing service
      • Adopt the Telemetry service
      • Adopt the DNS service
      • Adopt autoscaling services
    • Roll back the control plane adoption to restore your environment
    • Adopt the data plane
      • Stop infrastructure management and Compute services
      • Adopt Compute services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Configure data plane node sets for DCN sites
      • Adopt Compute services with DCN back ends
      • Perform a fast-forward upgrade on Compute services
      • Adopt Networker services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Enable the high availability for Compute instances service
    • Migrate the Object Storage service
      • Migrate the Object Storage service data from RHOSP to RHOSO nodes
  • Validate adoption of a RHOSP 17.1 deployment
    • Restore RHOCP on RHOSP authentication after adoption
    • Migrate the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage migration considerations for DCN deployments
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage daemon cardinality
      • Migrate the monitoring stack to new Red Hat Ceph Storage nodes
      • Migrate the existing daemons to the target nodes
      • Migrate Ceph MDS to new nodes in the cluster
      • Migrate Red Hat Ceph Storage RGW to external RHEL nodes
      • Migrate Red Hat Ceph Storage RBD to external RHEL nodes
      • Migrate Ceph Monitor daemons to Red Hat Ceph Storage nodes
      • Restore Ceph Dashboard failover settings after daemon migration
    • Finalize Load-balancing service adoption
    • Troubleshoot Key Manager service HSM adoption
      • Fix HSM configuration placeholder validation errors
      • Fix missing HSM certificate and client file errors
      • Fix SSH connectivity to the source environment for HSM adoption
      • Fix HSM secret creation errors
      • Fix custom image registry issues
      • Fix HSM back-end detection failures in the Key Manager service
      • Fix database migration issues
      • Fix Key Manager service startup failures after HSM configuration
      • Fix HSM performance and connectivity issues in the Key Manager service
    • Troubleshoot Key Manager service Proteccio HSM adoption
      • Fix Proteccio HSM prerequisite validation failures
      • Fix SSH connection failures to the source environment
      • Fix Proteccio custom image pull failures
      • Fix database import failures during Proteccio HSM adoption
      • Fix Proteccio HSM certificate mounting issues
      • Fix adoption verification failures for Key Manager service with Proteccio HSM
    • Object Storage service migration troubleshooting
  • Migrate external VMs
    • Migrate VMs
    • Deploy a conversion host
    • Build an automation execution environment image
    • Configure Ansible Automation Platform for migration
    • Plan for migration performance
    • Migration troubleshooting
  • Migrate network providers
    • Migrate to the Nmstate provider
    • Roll back the Nmstate migration
Integrate
  • Integrate certified partner content
    • Integrate partner storage solutions
      • Build certified partner container images
      • Deploy partner container images
      • Provide configuration files to storage services
    • Integrate partner networking solutions
      • Build certified partner container images for networking services
      • Partner container image deployment
      • Custom configuration for the networking driver
      • Build partner Ansible-runner image for agent deployment
      • Partner solution deployment on EDPM nodes
Configure
  • Configure optional control plane services
    • Service enablement and template configuration
    • Configure authentication for the memcached service
    • Control service pod placement with Topology CRs
    • Multi-cell deployment constraints and design decisions
    • Add Compute cells to the control plane
    • Remove a Compute cell from the control plane
    • Configure Compute service notifications
    • Enable the Dashboard service (horizon) interface
    • Enable the Orchestration service (heat)
    • Configure custom Orchestration service (heat) resource plugins
    • Configure custom Orchestration service (heat) resource plugins larger than 1 MiB
    • Customize the OpenStackClient API version environment variables
    • Override default service DNS hostnames
  • Create and manage node sets
    • Data plane services
    • Create and enable a custom service
    • Modify an OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR
    • Configure a node set for a feature or workload
    • Connect a node set to a Compute cell
    • Limit the ports available to the OpenStackProvisionServer CR
    • Register third-party nodes with the DNS server
    • Configure proxies for data plane nodes
    • Deploy data plane nodes with Image Mode (bootc) images
    • Use custom images with a custom provision server
  • Configure Compute nodes and instance provisioning
    • Manage Compute service ConfigMaps
    • Create instance flavors for resource allocation
    • Configure Compute node CPUs
    • Configure CPU pinning on Compute nodes
    • Configure Compute node memory
    • Configure huge pages on Compute nodes
    • Configure file-backed memory on Compute nodes
    • Configure AMD SEV memory encryption
    • Configure storage for Compute nodes
    • Configure instance scheduling and placement
    • Configure Placement service prefilters
    • Filter by resource provider traits
    • Manage host aggregates
    • Configure unified limits for quota enforcement
    • Configure PCI passthrough
    • Track PCI devices in the Placement service
    • Configure NVMe cleanup
    • Replace an NVMe device
    • Configure virtual GPUs for instances
    • Configure instance metadata
    • Instance security configuration
    • Clean the database
    • Migrate instances between Compute nodes
    • Migration troubleshooting
  • Configure networking services
    • ML2 OVN mechanism driver (ML2/OVN) network management
    • Deploy OVN gateways for network connectivity
      • Configure a control plane OVN gateway with a dedicated NIC
      • Disable control plane OVN gateways
      • Deploy Networker nodes for gateway capacity
      • Define pre-provisioned Networker nodes for the data plane
      • Provision Networker nodes from bare metal
      • Define unprovisioned Networker nodes for automated deployment
      • Deploy the data plane
    • Customize network configuration for a node set
    • Isolate network traffic with project networks
      • Traffic isolation and IP allocation with VLANs
      • Enable floating IP port forwarding for users
      • Connect instances to the physical network
    • Manage bandwidth and rate limits with QoS policies
      • Enable QoS policy capabilities in the Networking service
      • Enable QoS policy capabilities for SR-IOV ports
    • Control project access for networks and resources
      • Create RBAC policies
      • Review RBAC policies
      • Delete RBAC policies
      • Grant RBAC policy access for external networks
  • Configure storage services
    • Storage customization
    • Manage block storage volumes
      • Create a volume type for workload requirements
      • Manage Block Storage project quotas
      • Block Storage QoS property keys
      • Create a QoS specification for volume performance
      • Attach a volume to multiple instances
    • Protect sensitive data with volume encryption
    • Speed up volume creation with Image-Volume cache
    • Migrate a volume between back ends
    • Block storage service configuration
      • Configure automatic database cleanup
      • Alternative container images
      • Configure the API service
      • Configure the Block Storage scheduler
      • Configure back end availability zones
      • Configure a generic NFS storage back end for volumes
      • Configure NFS storage for volume format conversion
      • Create the Block Storage internal project
    • Configure block storage multipathing
    • Back up and recover block storage
      • Set the number of replicas for backups
      • Migrate from cinderBackup to cinderBackups
      • Set configuration options for volume backups
      • Enable data compression for volume backups
      • Configure Ceph RBD storage for Block Storage backups
      • Configure Object Storage for Block Storage volume backups
      • Configure NFS storage for Block Storage volume backups
      • Configure S3 storage for Block Storage volume backups
      • Manage Block Storage backup quotas per project
    • Configure image import and security
      • Distributed image import
      • Configure URI filtering for web-import sources
      • Copy images to multiple Ceph stores
      • Control accepted image disk formats
      • Enable image import plugins
      • Enable Image service notifications
      • Create the cloudrc file
      • Image service caching for scalability
      • Enable sparse image upload
      • Add an Image service API
      • Configure Image service quotas
      • Update default quotas for projects
    • Object storage scaling and tuning
      • Change default Object Storage parameters
      • Object Storage data plane configuration
      • Scale Object Storage on OpenShift nodes
      • Scale Object Storage on external data plane nodes
      • Rebalance Object Storage rings
      • Check Object Storage cluster health
    • Manage share types and quotas
      • Create share types for service levels
      • Manage and unmanage shared file systems
      • Default quotas for projects, users, and share types
      • Enable Shared File Systems notifications
Secure
  • Harden the deployment
    • Establish security foundations
    • Control plane and data plane security controls
    • Enforce granular control of access to your cloud resources
      • Assign SRBAC scope-based roles
      • Admin role permissions and security implications
    • Configure SRBAC policies
    • Authenticate with the Identity service
    • Manage TLS encryption and certificates
    • Firewall rule management
    • Enable FIPS compliance
    • Encrypt and validate storage services
    • Key Manager service for secrets and encryption keys
    • Harden NTP
    • Detect intrusions with AIDE
    • Instance security
    • Message queue security
    • Shared File Systems service (manila) security
    • Object Storage service (swift) security
    • Dashboard service (horizon) security
    • API endpoint security
    • Security monitoring and log collection
    • Rotate user credentials
      • Rotate the root database account password with a generated secret
      • Rotate the root database account password with a secret you create
  • Configure authentication and identity
    • Manage TLS encryption and certificates
    • Create custom certificate authorities for TLS
    • Configure TLS for deployed environments
    • Integrate LDAP for enterprise authentication
    • Configure hardware-secured key storage with Luna HSM
    • Configure hardware-secured key storage with Proteccio HSM
    • Configure single sign-on with federated identity
    • Authenticate with clouds.yaml to run openstackCLI commands
    • Configure multi-realm federated authentication
    • A multi-region OpenStack deployment with centralized user management
      • Single Keystone Multiple OpenStacks multi-region deployment architecture
      • Deploy SKMO
      • Create a unique namespace for each workload region
      • Create the default administrator user for each workload region
      • Deploy Red Hat Service Interconnect for SKMO
      • Route the private workload region endpoints through Skupper
      • Create the public and private endpoints of each workload region
      • Modify the workload region deployment to share the central region services
      • Configure the central region to trust each deployed workload region
      • Connect the central RabbitMQ service to each workload namespace with Skupper
      • Expose the routed Skupper endpoint to data plane compute nodes
      • Configure application credentials to authenticate OpenStack services in workload regions
    • Enforce granular control of access to your cloud resources
      • Assign SRBAC scope-based roles
      • Admin role permissions and security implications
    • Administer user access
    • Manage user groups
    • Project management
    • Project hierarchies
    • Reseller project model
    • Project security groups
    • Project resource quota administration
    • Manage domains
    • Configure application credentials for users
    • Application credential security features for authenticating OpenStack services
      • OpenStack service near zero downtime password rotation
    • Key Manager service for secrets and encryption keys
    • Encrypt and validate storage services
Extend
  • Configure bare metal as a service
    • Hardware requirements for bare-metal instance deployment
    • Networking requirements for bare-metal instance deployment
    • Prepare RHOCP networking for bare-metal networks
    • Enable bare-metal instance provisioning
    • Add physical machines as bare-metal nodes
    • Create and manage resources for bare-metal instances
    • Required images for bare-metal instances
    • Create virtual network interfaces for bare-metal instances
    • Configure port groups for bare-metal instances
    • Clean bare-metal nodes manually
    • Attach a virtual network interface to a bare-metal instance
    • Enable tenant-defined networking for BMaaS workloads
    • View node event history for troubleshooting
    • Bare-metal hardware drivers and power management types
  • Configure DNS as a service
    • Domain Name System fundamentals
    • DNS service components
    • DNS service deployment planning
    • Deploy DNS service components
      • Enable Redis for DNS service coordination
    • Automate DNS record creation
    • Top-level domain restrictions
    • DNS service zone denylists
    • Manage DNS resource quotas
    • DNS zone management
    • DNS records and record sets
    • PTR records for reverse DNS lookups
    • DNS service and BIND logs
  • Configure load balancing as a service
    • Load-balancing service architecture
    • Load-balancing service planning
    • Deploy the load-balancing service
    • Manage load-balancer instance logs
    • Create load-balancing service flavors
    • Load-balancing service management networks
    • Health monitor types and capabilities
    • Create HTTP load balancers
    • Create Non-terminated HTTPS load balancers
    • Create TLS-terminated HTTPS load balancers
    • Create load balancers for TCP, UDP, and other protocols
    • Layer 7 load balancing
      • Implementation of Layer 7 load balancing in RHOSO
      • Layer 7 rules
      • Layer 7 policies
    • Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS for improved security
    • Load balancer object tagging
    • Set up load balancer availability zones
    • Troubleshoot and maintain the Load-balancing service
  • Configure GPU workloads
    • Enable GPU support for instances
    • Verify GPU configuration with an AI inference server
  • Configure the dashboard
    • Manage cloud resources with the Dashboard
    • Create custom Dashboard themes
  • Configure high availability for instances
    • Instance HA evacuation workflow
    • Enable automatic instance recovery
    • Instance HA troubleshooting guidelines
  • Validate the deployment
    • Example custom resource configuration
    • Enable OpenStack Integration Test Suite testing capability
    • Validate your OpenStack deployment with OpenStack Integration Test Suite
    • Re-run tests after configuration changes
Administer
  • Create and manage instances
    • Instance boot source
    • Types of instance storage
    • Flavors for instances
    • Create an instance
    • Create an instance with a guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS
    • Update an instance
    • Provide public access to an instance
      • Secure instance access with security groups and key pairs
    • Connect to an instance
    • Manage an instance
    • Create a customized instance
    • Tag virtual devices
  • Manage persistent storage
    • Persistent storage services
      • Block storage volumes
      • Virtual machine images
      • Object storage containers
      • Shared file systems
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage documentation
    • Manage volumes and snapshots
      • Create a block storage volume
      • Edit volume properties
      • Extend a volume
      • Transfer volume ownership
      • Retype a volume
      • Control volume access
      • Delete a volume
      • Create a volume snapshot
    • Back up volumes
      • Grant volume owners access to admin-created backups
      • Create a full volume backup
      • Back up a snapshot
      • Back up an in-use volume
      • Incremental backups
      • Create an incremental backup
      • Cancel a backup
      • Protect backup metadata
      • Restore volume backups
      • Troubleshoot volume backups
    • Virtual machine image management
      • Virtual machine image formats
      • Virtual hardware metadata properties
      • Create RHEL KVM images
      • Create custom images from ISO files
      • Create a UEFI Secure Boot image
      • Upload and manage images
      • Distribute images across multiple stores
      • Image command options and properties
    • Object storage containers and objects
      • Create a private or public container
      • Create pseudo-folders in a container
      • Delete a container
      • Upload objects to a container
      • Copy objects between containers
      • Delete an object
    • Manage shares and snapshots
      • List available share types
      • NFS, CephFS, and CIFS shares
      • Create an encrypted share
      • List shares and export share details
      • Create a share snapshot
      • Connect to a share network
      • Configure an IPv6 interface for share access
      • Share access for end-user clients
      • Share mounting on compute instances
      • Transfer share ownership
      • Delete a share
      • List share service resource limits
      • Share operation troubleshooting
  • Manage project networks
    • Create a project network
    • Create a subnet
    • Distributed virtual routing for traffic optimization
    • Add a router to connect instances to external subnets
    • Clean up and remove a project completely
    • Manage floating IP addresses
    • Manage bandwidth and rate limits with QoS policies
      • QoS rules
      • Control QoS policy access with role-based permissions
      • Guaranteed minimum bandwidth for instance network performance
      • Apply minimum bandwidth policies with backend enforcement
      • Place instances on hosts with sufficient bandwidth
      • Prevent network congestion with bandwidth limits
      • Ensure traffic priority with DSCP marking
    • Connect instances to multiple VLANs
      • Trunk state values for monitoring and troubleshooting
      • Create a trunk to enable multi-VLAN routing
      • Manage VLANs in instances with VLAN transparency
    • Configure allowed address pairs
    • Configure security groups
    • Configure security group logging
    • Isolate workloads with private VLANs
    • Secure networks with Firewall as a Service
      • FWaaS versus Security Groups
      • FWaaS practice guidelines
      • Enable FWaaS
      • Confirm FWaaS is ready for use
      • Create a firewall group rule
      • Organize rules into firewall group policies
      • Apply firewall policies to router ports
    • Mirror port traffic with TAP-as-a-Service
    • Enable hostname resolution for network ports
    • Optimize instance performance with NUMA affinity
    • Protect metadata service from DoS attacks with rate limiting
    • Prevent traffic flooding with FDB learning
  • Maintain data plane nodes
    • Scale data plane nodes
    • Replace data plane nodes
    • Reboot data plane nodes
  • Maintain the cloud infrastructure
    • Safe shutdown sequence
    • Safe startup sequence
    • Remove a RHOSO deployment from RHOCP
  • Back up and restore the control plane
    • Backup and restore mechanism
    • Create the GaleraBackup CR
    • Back up the control plane
    • Restore the environment
      • Restore the control plane
      • Restore the data plane
      • Verify the restored environment
Observe
  • Monitor cloud health
    • Observability architecture
    • Configure metrics collection and alerting on the control plane
    • Override default Telemetry service configuration
    • Collect power consumption metrics on the data plane
    • Enable observability logging
      • Enable observability logging on the control plane
      • Enable observability logging on the data plane
    • Enable and configure audit logging
      • Enable audit logging for the Block Storage, Image, and Networking services
      • Enable audit logging for the Compute and Key Manager services
      • Enable audit logging for the Identity service
      • Audit logging configuration examples
      • Service API pipeline configuration file names
      • Forward audit logs to dedicated storage
    • Monitor network metrics
    • Monitor networks with alerts
  • Monitor cloud high availability
    • MariaDB Galera clusters
    • RabbitMQ cluster architecture and failover
    • Memcached pod readiness and service availability
    • Investigate high availability service pods
    • High availability service endpoints and connectivity
    • Inspect the statefulset of high availability services
  • Collect cloud usage data for billing
    • Rating metrics definition and collection options
    • Rating service metric configuration options
    • Enable the Rating service on the control plane
    • Configure metrics for rating rules
    • Create a rating rule
    • View resource consumption
Optimize
  • Optimize the RHOCP cluster
    • Tune the service Operator controller manager
    • Customize RHOCP network routes
  • Optimize resource utilization
    • Optimization audits and action plans
    • Optimization components
    • Prepare the optimization framework
    • Optimization strategies
    • Verify your environment before optimization
    • Enable the Optimize service on the control plane
    • Run optimization audits and action plans
    • Run sample optimization workflows
  • Optimize instances with autoscaling
    • Services for autoscaling instances
    • Migrate autoscaling templates from RHOSP to RHOSO
    • Activate heat and telemetry services for instance autoscaling
    • Configure Orchestration service (heat) templates for autoscaling
Troubleshoot
  • Collect diagnostic information
    • Gather control plane and data plane diagnostics
    • Control diagnostic data scope
    • Gathered data structure
Reference
  • Service flows, ports, and protocols
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  • Review release notes
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.22
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Observability
      • Optimize service
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.21
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • High availability
      • Network functions virtualization
      • Networking
      • Observability
      • Optimization
      • Release delivery
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.18
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Networking
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.17
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • High availability
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Networking
      • Observability
      • Optimize Service
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.16
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.15
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.14
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
      • Dashboard
      • Optimize Service
      • Migration
      • Hardware provisioning
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.13
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
        • Deprecated functionality
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.12
      • Advisory list
      • Control plane
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.11
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.10
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.9
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.8
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
        • Known issues
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Security and hardening
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.7
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Security and hardening
      • Optimize Service
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.6
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.4
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • Security and hardening
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.3
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Control plane
      • High availability
      • Storage
      • Upgrades and updates
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.2
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0.1
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Storage
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0 GA
      • Advisory list
      • Observability
      • Compute
      • Data plane
      • Hardware provisioning
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • High availability
      • Storage
      • Dashboard
    • Release information RHOSO 18.0 Beta
      • Advisory list
      • Compute
      • Networking
      • Network Functions Virtualization
      • Storage
      • Release delivery
      • Integration test suite
Discover
  • Learn about the platform
  • OpenStack networking overview
Plan
  • Design the environment
    • Control plane topology options
    • Storage features and topologies
    • RHOCP cluster requirements
    • Data plane node requirements
    • Compute node requirements
    • Control plane high availability requirements
    • Register your subscriptions
    • Enable FIPS compliance
    • Bare-metal data plane node provisioning
  • Network planning
  • Storage planning
    • Persistent storage configuration
    • Storage technologies
    • Storage networks
    • Storage scalability
    • Storage access and administration
    • Storage security
    • Storage redundancy and disaster recovery
    • Storage management
    • RHOCP storage sizing
  • Large-scale deployment specifications
  • Best practices for large-scale deployment
Install
  • Deploy the cloud infrastructure
    • Cloud infrastructure deployment workflow
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks
      • Prepare RHOCP with isolated network interfaces
      • Attach service pods to the isolated networks
      • Configure MetalLB address pools for network VIPs
      • Define data plane networks for traffic isolation
    • Control plane deployment
    • Create and deploy the data plane
      • Verify your configuration before deployment
      • Create data plane Secret CRs
      • Create an OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR with pre-provisioned nodes
      • Deploy a data plane with unprovisioned nodes
      • Deploy the data plane
        • Redistribute renewed certificates to data plane nodes
      • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
    • Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage as a back end
      • Enable deferred deletion for volumes or images with dependencies
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage documentation
      • Create Ceph storage pools
      • Create a Ceph storage secret
      • Obtain the Ceph File System identifier
      • Configure the control plane to use Ceph
      • Configure the data plane to use Ceph
      • Configure an external Ceph Object Gateway for storage
      • Configure RGW with TLS for an external Ceph cluster
      • Troubleshoot Ceph RBD integration
    • Mount external files for configuration data
    • Configure block storage
      • Block Storage terminology
      • Block Storage enhancements
      • LVM device management
      • Configure block storage transport protocols
      • Configure initial defaults
      • Configure the Block Storage volume service
    • Image service configuration
      • Configure Block Storage as an Image service back end
      • Configure Object Storage as an Image service back end
      • Configure S3 as an Image service back end
      • Configure NFS as an Image service back end
      • Configure multistore for a single Image service API instance
      • Configure multiple Image service API instances
    • Object Storage configuration
      • Object Storage rings
      • External ring management
      • Ring partition power
      • Deploy Object Storage on OpenShift nodes with PersistentVolumes
      • Deploy Object Storage on external data plane nodes
      • Manage Object Storage rings externally with a single ConfigMap
      • Manage Object Storage rings externally with multiple ConfigMaps
      • Use swift-ring-builder with a container
      • Set Object Storage ring partition power values
    • Configure Shared File Systems
      • View storage back-end capacity for file system shares
      • Enable Shared File Systems
      • Configure native CephFS as a file share storage back end
      • Configure CephFS-NFS as a file share storage back end
      • Set up alternative share back ends
      • Configure share encryption with the Key Manager service
      • Configure multiple Shared File Systems back ends
      • Create availability zones for back ends
      • Change the allowed NAS protocols for file system shares
    • OpenStack Integration Test Suite validation
      • Example custom resource configuration
      • Enable OpenStack Integration Test Suite testing capability
      • Validate your OpenStack deployment with OpenStack Integration Test Suite
    • Access the cloud
  • Deploy in a disconnected environment
    • Mirror required Operators and images
    • Set up a Satellite registry for disconnected data plane nodes
  • Deploy across distributed zones
    • Infrastructure requirements for distributed zones
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare networks for distributed zones
    • Prepare storage for distributed zones
    • Create the distributed control plane
    • Create the distributed data plane
    • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
  • Deploy a network functions virtualization (NFV) environment
    • NFV ETSI architecture and components
    • NFV components
    • Supported configurations for NFV
    • NFV performance factors
    • CPU pinning for dedicated NFV performance
    • Huge pages for NFV memory optimization
    • Verify NFV requirements
    • SR-IOV deployment planning
    • Plan an OVS-DPDK deployment
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare networks for NFV
      • Required data center networks
      • NIC configurations for NFV
      • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks
        • Prepare RHOCP with isolated network interfaces
        • Attach service pods to the isolated networks
        • Configure MetalLB address pools for network VIPs
        • Define data plane networks for traffic isolation
    • Control plane deployment
    • Deploy the data plane for SR-IOV and DPDK
      • Create data plane Secret CRs
      • Create a custom SR-IOV Compute service
      • Create a custom OVS-DPDK Compute service
      • Create a set of data plane nodes with pre-provisioned nodes
      • Create a set of data plane nodes with unprovisioned nodes
      • OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR spec properties
      • Network interface configuration options
      • edpm-ansible variables for SR-IOV and OVS-DPDK
      • Custom network interface examples for NFV
      • Deploy the data plane
    • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
      • Diagnose service failures with job condition messages
    • Access the cloud
    • Tune performance for NFV
    • HCI data plane deployment with DPDK
  • Deploy a dynamic routing environment
    • Dynamic routing
    • Dynamic routing support matrix
    • Dynamic routing topology example
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare networks for dynamic routing
      • Default networks for BGP
      • Dynamic routing environment for distributed zones
      • Prepare RHOCP for BGP networks
      • Create the data plane network for BGP
    • Create the control plane
    • Create a data plane for dynamic routing
      • Create data plane Secret CRs
      • Create a pre-provisioned node set for dynamic routing
      • Create an unprovisioned node set for dynamic routing
      • OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR spec properties for dynamic routing
      • Deploy the data plane for dynamic routing
      • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
        • Diagnose service failures with job condition messages
    • Troubleshoot dynamic routing
      • Neutron OVN agent and FRRouting logs
      • Use VTY shell commands to troubleshoot BGP
  • Deploy a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment
    • Configure HCI nodes
    • Deploy Ceph on HCI data plane nodes
    • Scale HCI capacity
  • Deploy a distributed Compute node (DCN) environment
    • Distributed compute node architecture
    • Plan a DCN deployment
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Deploy the DCN control plane
    • Deploy a DCN node set
    • Verify image and volume operations across edge sites
    • Decommission a DCN edge site
    • Remove a DCN node
  • Deploy with routed spine-leaf network topology
    • Install and prepare the OpenStack Operator
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the web console
      • Install the OpenStack Operator with the CLI
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO
      • Service node placement
      • Create the openstack namespace
      • Provide secure access to services
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks
      • Prepare RHOCP with isolated network interfaces
      • Attach service pods to the isolated networks
      • Configure MetalLB address pools for network VIPs
      • Define data plane networks for traffic isolation
    • Control plane deployment
    • Create the data plane for a spine-leaf topology
    • Deploy the data plane
    • Troubleshoot data plane creation and deployment
      • Diagnose service failures with job condition messages
    • Access the cloud
  • Deploy multiple RHOSO environments on a single RHOCP cluster
    • Plan the isolated networks for each namespace
    • Create the namespaces and the Secret CRs for each namespace
    • Prepare RHOCP for RHOSO networks for each namespace
    • Create an environment for a namespace
Upgrade
  • Perform a minor update
    • Requirements for a successful update
    • Upgrade known issues
    • Apply kernel updates without rebooting Compute nodes
    • Consistent package content across multiple clouds
    • Safe checkpoints for pausing updates
    • Create data plane update files
    • Update OVN services on the control plane
    • Update OVN services on the data plane
    • Confirm control plane readiness for data plane updates
    • Complete data plane service updates
    • Complete the RabbitMQ update process
    • Update the operating system
    • Update strategies for Image Mode data plane nodes
    • Reboot updated Compute nodes
Migrate
  • Plan adoption from a RHOSP 17.1 deployment
    • Requirements for a successful adoption
    • Adoption limitations
    • Adoption workflow and task sequence
    • Expected adoption timelines and workload impact
    • Distributed Compute Node adoption requirements and workflow
    • Identity service authentication for adoption
    • Prepare Compute hosts with the systemd-container package
    • Configure the network for deployment
      • Retrieve the network configuration from your existing deployment
      • Plan your IPAM configuration
      • Configure isolated networks for the adopted environment
      • Spine-leaf network configuration for adoption
    • Storage requirements for adoption
      • Storage driver certification
      • Block Storage service adoption preparation guidelines
      • Block Storage service adoption limitations
      • RHOCP preparation for Block Storage service adoption
      • Block Storage service configuration conversion for adoption
      • CephFS through NFS changes for adoption
    • Prepare Red Hat Ceph Storage for adoption
      • Prepare the Red Hat Ceph Storage monitoring stack for migration
      • Prepare for the Red Hat Ceph Storage RGW migration
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage RBD migration preparation
      • Deploy a clustered Ceph NFS service to replace standalone NFS
    • Prepare Instance HA for adoption
      • Maintain Instance HA functionality after adoption
      • Disable Pacemaker monitoring on Compute nodes before adoption
  • Adopt a RHOSP 17.1 deployment
    • Configuration preservation for oc patch changes
    • Migrate TLS-e certificates to preserve encrypted communications
    • Migrate databases to preserve service data on the control plane
      • Retrieve service configuration to ensure database accuracy
      • Deploy back-end services
      • Configure a Ceph back end for storage continuity
      • Stop Red Hat OpenStack Platform services to prevent data inconsistencies
      • Migrate databases to MariaDB instances to preserve service data
      • Migrate OVN data to preserve network configuration
    • Adopt Red Hat OpenStack Platform control plane services
      • Adopt the Identity service
      • Configure OIDC federation for the Identity service
      • Configure LDAP with domain-specific drivers
      • Adopt the Key Manager service
      • Adopt the Key Manager service with HSM integration
      • Adopt the Networking service
      • Configure control plane networking for spine-leaf to enable cross-site communication
      • Adopt the Object Storage service
      • Adopt the Image service
      • Adopt the Placement service
      • Adopt the Bare Metal Provisioning service
      • Adopt the Compute service
      • Adopt the Block Storage service
      • Adopt the Dashboard service
      • Adopt the Shared File Systems service
      • Adopt the Orchestration service
      • Adopt the Load-balancing service
      • Adopt the Telemetry service
      • Adopt the DNS service
      • Adopt autoscaling services
    • Roll back the control plane adoption to restore your environment
    • Adopt the data plane
      • Stop infrastructure management and Compute services
      • Adopt Compute services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Configure data plane node sets for DCN sites
      • Adopt Compute services with DCN back ends
      • Perform a fast-forward upgrade on Compute services
      • Adopt Networker services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Enable the high availability for Compute instances service
    • Migrate the Object Storage service
      • Migrate the Object Storage service data from RHOSP to RHOSO nodes
  • Adopt a 17.1 director Operator environment
    • Configuration preservation for oc patch changes
    • Reduce director Operator Controllers to one node for adoption
    • Set up the environment for director Operator workloads
    • Migrate TLS-e certificates to preserve encrypted communications
    • Migrate databases to preserve service data on the control plane
    • Remove director Operator resources to prepare for database adoption
    • Adopt Red Hat OpenStack Platform control plane services
      • Adopt the Identity service
      • Configure OIDC federation for the Identity service
      • Configure LDAP with domain-specific drivers
      • Adopt the Key Manager service
      • Adopt the Key Manager service with HSM integration
      • Adopt the Networking service
      • Configure control plane networking for spine-leaf to enable cross-site communication
      • Adopt the Object Storage service
      • Adopt the Image service
      • Adopt the Placement service
      • Adopt the Bare Metal Provisioning service
      • Adopt the Compute service
      • Adopt the Block Storage service
      • Adopt the Dashboard service
      • Adopt the Shared File Systems service
      • Adopt the Orchestration service
      • Adopt the Load-balancing service
      • Adopt the Telemetry service
      • Adopt the DNS service
      • Adopt autoscaling services
    • Roll back the control plane adoption to restore your environment
    • Adopt the data plane
      • Stop infrastructure management and Compute services
      • Adopt Compute services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Configure data plane node sets for DCN sites
      • Adopt Compute services with DCN back ends
      • Perform a fast-forward upgrade on Compute services
      • Adopt Networker services to the RHOSO data plane
      • Enable the high availability for Compute instances service
    • Migrate the Object Storage service
      • Migrate the Object Storage service data from RHOSP to RHOSO nodes
  • Validate adoption of a RHOSP 17.1 deployment
    • Restore RHOCP on RHOSP authentication after adoption
    • Migrate the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage migration considerations for DCN deployments
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage daemon cardinality
      • Migrate the monitoring stack to new Red Hat Ceph Storage nodes
      • Migrate the existing daemons to the target nodes
      • Migrate Ceph MDS to new nodes in the cluster
      • Migrate Red Hat Ceph Storage RGW to external RHEL nodes
      • Migrate Red Hat Ceph Storage RBD to external RHEL nodes
      • Migrate Ceph Monitor daemons to Red Hat Ceph Storage nodes
      • Restore Ceph Dashboard failover settings after daemon migration
    • Finalize Load-balancing service adoption
    • Troubleshoot Key Manager service HSM adoption
      • Fix HSM configuration placeholder validation errors
      • Fix missing HSM certificate and client file errors
      • Fix SSH connectivity to the source environment for HSM adoption
      • Fix HSM secret creation errors
      • Fix custom image registry issues
      • Fix HSM back-end detection failures in the Key Manager service
      • Fix database migration issues
      • Fix Key Manager service startup failures after HSM configuration
      • Fix HSM performance and connectivity issues in the Key Manager service
    • Troubleshoot Key Manager service Proteccio HSM adoption
      • Fix Proteccio HSM prerequisite validation failures
      • Fix SSH connection failures to the source environment
      • Fix Proteccio custom image pull failures
      • Fix database import failures during Proteccio HSM adoption
      • Fix Proteccio HSM certificate mounting issues
      • Fix adoption verification failures for Key Manager service with Proteccio HSM
    • Object Storage service migration troubleshooting
  • Migrate external VMs
    • Migrate VMs
    • Deploy a conversion host
    • Build an automation execution environment image
    • Configure Ansible Automation Platform for migration
    • Plan for migration performance
    • Migration troubleshooting
  • Migrate network providers
    • Migrate to the Nmstate provider
    • Roll back the Nmstate migration
Integrate
  • Integrate certified partner content
    • Integrate partner storage solutions
      • Build certified partner container images
      • Deploy partner container images
      • Provide configuration files to storage services
    • Integrate partner networking solutions
      • Build certified partner container images for networking services
      • Partner container image deployment
      • Custom configuration for the networking driver
      • Build partner Ansible-runner image for agent deployment
      • Partner solution deployment on EDPM nodes
Configure
  • Configure optional control plane services
    • Service enablement and template configuration
    • Configure authentication for the memcached service
    • Control service pod placement with Topology CRs
    • Multi-cell deployment constraints and design decisions
    • Add Compute cells to the control plane
    • Remove a Compute cell from the control plane
    • Configure Compute service notifications
    • Enable the Dashboard service (horizon) interface
    • Enable the Orchestration service (heat)
    • Configure custom Orchestration service (heat) resource plugins
    • Configure custom Orchestration service (heat) resource plugins larger than 1 MiB
    • Customize the OpenStackClient API version environment variables
    • Override default service DNS hostnames
  • Create and manage node sets
    • Data plane services
    • Create and enable a custom service
    • Modify an OpenStackDataPlaneNodeSet CR
    • Configure a node set for a feature or workload
    • Connect a node set to a Compute cell
    • Limit the ports available to the OpenStackProvisionServer CR
    • Register third-party nodes with the DNS server
    • Configure proxies for data plane nodes
    • Deploy data plane nodes with Image Mode (bootc) images
    • Use custom images with a custom provision server
  • Configure Compute nodes and instance provisioning
    • Manage Compute service ConfigMaps
    • Create instance flavors for resource allocation
    • Configure Compute node CPUs
    • Configure CPU pinning on Compute nodes
    • Configure Compute node memory
    • Configure huge pages on Compute nodes
    • Configure file-backed memory on Compute nodes
    • Configure AMD SEV memory encryption
    • Configure storage for Compute nodes
    • Configure instance scheduling and placement
    • Configure Placement service prefilters
    • Filter by resource provider traits
    • Manage host aggregates
    • Configure unified limits for quota enforcement
    • Configure PCI passthrough
    • Track PCI devices in the Placement service
    • Configure NVMe cleanup
    • Replace an NVMe device
    • Configure virtual GPUs for instances
    • Configure instance metadata
    • Instance security configuration
    • Clean the database
    • Migrate instances between Compute nodes
    • Migration troubleshooting
  • Configure networking services
    • ML2 OVN mechanism driver (ML2/OVN) network management
    • Deploy OVN gateways for network connectivity
      • Configure a control plane OVN gateway with a dedicated NIC
      • Disable control plane OVN gateways
      • Deploy Networker nodes for gateway capacity
      • Define pre-provisioned Networker nodes for the data plane
      • Provision Networker nodes from bare metal
      • Define unprovisioned Networker nodes for automated deployment
      • Deploy the data plane
    • Customize network configuration for a node set
    • Isolate network traffic with project networks
      • Traffic isolation and IP allocation with VLANs
      • Enable floating IP port forwarding for users
      • Connect instances to the physical network
    • Manage bandwidth and rate limits with QoS policies
      • Enable QoS policy capabilities in the Networking service
      • Enable QoS policy capabilities for SR-IOV ports
    • Control project access for networks and resources
      • Create RBAC policies
      • Review RBAC policies
      • Delete RBAC policies
      • Grant RBAC policy access for external networks
  • Configure storage services
    • Storage customization
    • Manage block storage volumes
      • Create a volume type for workload requirements
      • Manage Block Storage project quotas
      • Block Storage QoS property keys
      • Create a QoS specification for volume performance
      • Attach a volume to multiple instances
    • Protect sensitive data with volume encryption
    • Speed up volume creation with Image-Volume cache
    • Migrate a volume between back ends
    • Block storage service configuration
      • Configure automatic database cleanup
      • Alternative container images
      • Configure the API service
      • Configure the Block Storage scheduler
      • Configure back end availability zones
      • Configure a generic NFS storage back end for volumes
      • Configure NFS storage for volume format conversion
      • Create the Block Storage internal project
    • Configure block storage multipathing
    • Back up and recover block storage
      • Set the number of replicas for backups
      • Migrate from cinderBackup to cinderBackups
      • Set configuration options for volume backups
      • Enable data compression for volume backups
      • Configure Ceph RBD storage for Block Storage backups
      • Configure Object Storage for Block Storage volume backups
      • Configure NFS storage for Block Storage volume backups
      • Configure S3 storage for Block Storage volume backups
      • Manage Block Storage backup quotas per project
    • Configure image import and security
      • Distributed image import
      • Configure URI filtering for web-import sources
      • Copy images to multiple Ceph stores
      • Control accepted image disk formats
      • Enable image import plugins
      • Enable Image service notifications
      • Create the cloudrc file
      • Image service caching for scalability
      • Enable sparse image upload
      • Add an Image service API
      • Configure Image service quotas
      • Update default quotas for projects
    • Object storage scaling and tuning
      • Change default Object Storage parameters
      • Object Storage data plane configuration
      • Scale Object Storage on OpenShift nodes
      • Scale Object Storage on external data plane nodes
      • Rebalance Object Storage rings
      • Check Object Storage cluster health
    • Manage share types and quotas
      • Create share types for service levels
      • Manage and unmanage shared file systems
      • Default quotas for projects, users, and share types
      • Enable Shared File Systems notifications
Secure
  • Harden the deployment
    • Establish security foundations
    • Control plane and data plane security controls
    • Enforce granular control of access to your cloud resources
      • Assign SRBAC scope-based roles
      • Admin role permissions and security implications
    • Configure SRBAC policies
    • Authenticate with the Identity service
    • Manage TLS encryption and certificates
    • Firewall rule management
    • Enable FIPS compliance
    • Encrypt and validate storage services
    • Key Manager service for secrets and encryption keys
    • Harden NTP
    • Detect intrusions with AIDE
    • Instance security
    • Message queue security
    • Shared File Systems service (manila) security
    • Object Storage service (swift) security
    • Dashboard service (horizon) security
    • API endpoint security
    • Security monitoring and log collection
    • Rotate user credentials
      • Rotate the root database account password with a generated secret
      • Rotate the root database account password with a secret you create
  • Configure authentication and identity
    • Manage TLS encryption and certificates
    • Create custom certificate authorities for TLS
    • Configure TLS for deployed environments
    • Integrate LDAP for enterprise authentication
    • Configure hardware-secured key storage with Luna HSM
    • Configure hardware-secured key storage with Proteccio HSM
    • Configure single sign-on with federated identity
    • Authenticate with clouds.yaml to run openstackCLI commands
    • Configure multi-realm federated authentication
    • A multi-region OpenStack deployment with centralized user management
      • Single Keystone Multiple OpenStacks multi-region deployment architecture
      • Deploy SKMO
      • Create a unique namespace for each workload region
      • Create the default administrator user for each workload region
      • Deploy Red Hat Service Interconnect for SKMO
      • Route the private workload region endpoints through Skupper
      • Create the public and private endpoints of each workload region
      • Modify the workload region deployment to share the central region services
      • Configure the central region to trust each deployed workload region
      • Connect the central RabbitMQ service to each workload namespace with Skupper
      • Expose the routed Skupper endpoint to data plane compute nodes
      • Configure application credentials to authenticate OpenStack services in workload regions
    • Enforce granular control of access to your cloud resources
      • Assign SRBAC scope-based roles
      • Admin role permissions and security implications
    • Administer user access
    • Manage user groups
    • Project management
    • Project hierarchies
    • Reseller project model
    • Project security groups
    • Project resource quota administration
    • Manage domains
    • Configure application credentials for users
    • Application credential security features for authenticating OpenStack services
      • OpenStack service near zero downtime password rotation
    • Key Manager service for secrets and encryption keys
    • Encrypt and validate storage services
Extend
  • Configure bare metal as a service
    • Hardware requirements for bare-metal instance deployment
    • Networking requirements for bare-metal instance deployment
    • Prepare RHOCP networking for bare-metal networks
    • Enable bare-metal instance provisioning
    • Add physical machines as bare-metal nodes
    • Create and manage resources for bare-metal instances
    • Required images for bare-metal instances
    • Create virtual network interfaces for bare-metal instances
    • Configure port groups for bare-metal instances
    • Clean bare-metal nodes manually
    • Attach a virtual network interface to a bare-metal instance
    • Enable tenant-defined networking for BMaaS workloads
    • View node event history for troubleshooting
    • Bare-metal hardware drivers and power management types
  • Configure DNS as a service
    • Domain Name System fundamentals
    • DNS service components
    • DNS service deployment planning
    • Deploy DNS service components
      • Enable Redis for DNS service coordination
    • Automate DNS record creation
    • Top-level domain restrictions
    • DNS service zone denylists
    • Manage DNS resource quotas
    • DNS zone management
    • DNS records and record sets
    • PTR records for reverse DNS lookups
    • DNS service and BIND logs
  • Configure load balancing as a service
    • Load-balancing service architecture
    • Load-balancing service planning
    • Deploy the load-balancing service
    • Manage load-balancer instance logs
    • Create load-balancing service flavors
    • Load-balancing service management networks
    • Health monitor types and capabilities
    • Create HTTP load balancers
    • Create Non-terminated HTTPS load balancers
    • Create TLS-terminated HTTPS load balancers
    • Create load balancers for TCP, UDP, and other protocols
    • Layer 7 load balancing
      • Implementation of Layer 7 load balancing in RHOSO
      • Layer 7 rules
      • Layer 7 policies
    • Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS for improved security
    • Load balancer object tagging
    • Set up load balancer availability zones
    • Troubleshoot and maintain the Load-balancing service
  • Configure GPU workloads
    • Enable GPU support for instances
    • Verify GPU configuration with an AI inference server
  • Configure the dashboard
    • Manage cloud resources with the Dashboard
    • Create custom Dashboard themes
  • Configure high availability for instances
    • Instance HA evacuation workflow
    • Enable automatic instance recovery
    • Instance HA troubleshooting guidelines
  • Validate the deployment
    • Example custom resource configuration
    • Enable OpenStack Integration Test Suite testing capability
    • Validate your OpenStack deployment with OpenStack Integration Test Suite
    • Re-run tests after configuration changes
Administer
  • Create and manage instances
    • Instance boot source
    • Types of instance storage
    • Flavors for instances
    • Create an instance
    • Create an instance with a guaranteed minimum bandwidth QoS
    • Update an instance
    • Provide public access to an instance
      • Secure instance access with security groups and key pairs
    • Connect to an instance
    • Manage an instance
    • Create a customized instance
    • Tag virtual devices
  • Manage persistent storage
    • Persistent storage services
      • Block storage volumes
      • Virtual machine images
      • Object storage containers
      • Shared file systems
      • Red Hat Ceph Storage documentation
    • Manage volumes and snapshots
      • Create a block storage volume
      • Edit volume properties
      • Extend a volume
      • Transfer volume ownership
      • Retype a volume
      • Control volume access
      • Delete a volume
      • Create a volume snapshot
    • Back up volumes
      • Grant volume owners access to admin-created backups
      • Create a full volume backup
      • Back up a snapshot
      • Back up an in-use volume
      • Incremental backups
      • Create an incremental backup
      • Cancel a backup
      • Protect backup metadata
      • Restore volume backups
      • Troubleshoot volume backups
    • Virtual machine image management
      • Virtual machine image formats
      • Virtual hardware metadata properties
      • Create RHEL KVM images
      • Create custom images from ISO files
      • Create a UEFI Secure Boot image
      • Upload and manage images
      • Distribute images across multiple stores
      • Image command options and properties
    • Object storage containers and objects
      • Create a private or public container
      • Create pseudo-folders in a container
      • Delete a container
      • Upload objects to a container
      • Copy objects between containers
      • Delete an object
    • Manage shares and snapshots
      • List available share types
      • NFS, CephFS, and CIFS shares
      • Create an encrypted share
      • List shares and export share details
      • Create a share snapshot
      • Connect to a share network
      • Configure an IPv6 interface for share access
      • Share access for end-user clients
      • Share mounting on compute instances
      • Transfer share ownership
      • Delete a share
      • List share service resource limits
      • Share operation troubleshooting
  • Manage project networks
    • Create a project network
    • Create a subnet
    • Distributed virtual routing for traffic optimization
    • Add a router to connect instances to external subnets
    • Clean up and remove a project completely
    • Manage floating IP addresses
    • Manage bandwidth and rate limits with QoS policies
      • QoS rules
      • Control QoS policy access with role-based permissions
      • Guaranteed minimum bandwidth for instance network performance
      • Apply minimum bandwidth policies with backend enforcement
      • Place instances on hosts with sufficient bandwidth
      • Prevent network congestion with bandwidth limits
      • Ensure traffic priority with DSCP marking
    • Connect instances to multiple VLANs
      • Trunk state values for monitoring and troubleshooting
      • Create a trunk to enable multi-VLAN routing
      • Manage VLANs in instances with VLAN transparency
    • Configure allowed address pairs
    • Configure security groups
    • Configure security group logging
    • Isolate workloads with private VLANs
    • Secure networks with Firewall as a Service
      • FWaaS versus Security Groups
      • FWaaS practice guidelines
      • Enable FWaaS
      • Confirm FWaaS is ready for use
      • Create a firewall group rule
      • Organize rules into firewall group policies
      • Apply firewall policies to router ports
    • Mirror port traffic with TAP-as-a-Service
    • Enable hostname resolution for network ports
    • Optimize instance performance with NUMA affinity
    • Protect metadata service from DoS attacks with rate limiting
    • Prevent traffic flooding with FDB learning
  • Maintain data plane nodes
    • Scale data plane nodes
    • Replace data plane nodes
    • Reboot data plane nodes
  • Maintain the cloud infrastructure
    • Safe shutdown sequence
    • Safe startup sequence
    • Remove a RHOSO deployment from RHOCP
  • Back up and restore the control plane
    • Backup and restore mechanism
    • Create the GaleraBackup CR
    • Back up the control plane
    • Restore the environment
      • Restore the control plane
      • Restore the data plane
      • Verify the restored environment
Observe
  • Monitor cloud health
    • Observability architecture
    • Configure metrics collection and alerting on the control plane
    • Override default Telemetry service configuration
    • Collect power consumption metrics on the data plane
    • Enable observability logging
      • Enable observability logging on the control plane
      • Enable observability logging on the data plane
    • Enable and configure audit logging
      • Enable audit logging for the Block Storage, Image, and Networking services
      • Enable audit logging for the Compute and Key Manager services
      • Enable audit logging for the Identity service
      • Audit logging configuration examples
      • Service API pipeline configuration file names
      • Forward audit logs to dedicated storage
    • Monitor network metrics
    • Monitor networks with alerts
  • Monitor cloud high availability
    • MariaDB Galera clusters
    • RabbitMQ cluster architecture and failover
    • Memcached pod readiness and service availability
    • Investigate high availability service pods
    • High availability service endpoints and connectivity
    • Inspect the statefulset of high availability services
  • Collect cloud usage data for billing
    • Rating metrics definition and collection options
    • Rating service metric configuration options
    • Enable the Rating service on the control plane
    • Configure metrics for rating rules
    • Create a rating rule
    • View resource consumption
Optimize
  • Optimize the RHOCP cluster
    • Tune the service Operator controller manager
    • Customize RHOCP network routes
  • Optimize resource utilization
    • Optimization audits and action plans
    • Optimization components
    • Prepare the optimization framework
    • Optimization strategies
    • Verify your environment before optimization
    • Enable the Optimize service on the control plane
    • Run optimization audits and action plans
    • Run sample optimization workflows
  • Optimize instances with autoscaling
    • Services for autoscaling instances
    • Migrate autoscaling templates from RHOSP to RHOSO
    • Activate heat and telemetry services for instance autoscaling
    • Configure Orchestration service (heat) templates for autoscaling
Troubleshoot
  • Collect diagnostic information
    • Gather control plane and data plane diagnostics
    • Control diagnostic data scope
    • Gathered data structure
Reference
  • Service flows, ports, and protocols
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