Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Openstack Platform certification policy guide
The Red Hat OpenStack certification policy guide describes the policy overview to certify third-party vendor solutions with Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Red Hat encourages Partners to test their plugins with pre-releases of both Red Hat builds and pre-releases of their own solutions.
1.1. Audience
This guide describes the technical certification requirements as implemented for software certification Partners who want to offer their own applications, management applications or plugin/driver software for use with Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) in a jointly supported customer environment.
1.2. Creating value for customers
The certification process includes a series of tests that provides Red Hat Customers with the assurance that a certified solution meets all the requirements of an enterprise cloud. The certification process is jointly supported by Red Hat and Partner’s organization.
The Red Hat OpenStack Certification Workflow Guide includes multiple tests, each with a series of subtests and checks, which are explained in this guide. All tests are not required for each certification.
Logs from a single run with all of the mandatory tests and the test suite self-check test (rhcert/selfcheck) must be submitted to Red Hat for new certifications and for recertifications. The certification tooling and workflow documented in the article will be supported for a period of 90 days to support certifications which are underway.
You must complete all new certifications using the latest certification tooling and workflow document in the Red Hat OpenStack Certification Policy and Workflow guides.
Red Hat encourages you to install and use the latest version of the certification tooling and workflow for the certification process. A 90 day grace period is provided for the previous version of the tooling and workflow upon a new release of the certification tooling. This allows already in progress certifications to be completed without disruption. At the end of the grace period, test results generated using earlier versions of tooling will no longer be accepted.
The latest version of the certification tooling and workflow is available via Red Hat Subscription Management and documented in the Red Hat OpenStack Certification WorkFlow Guide.
Most of the certification subtests provide an immediate return status (Pass/Fail), however, some subtests may require detailed review by Red Hat to confirm success. Such tests are marked with Review status in the Red Hat Certification application.
Some tests may also identify a potential issue and return a Warn status. This status indicates that best practices have not been followed. Tests marked with the Warn status warrant attention or actions but do not prevent a certification from succeeding. You are recommended to review the output of such tests and perform appropriate actions based on the information contained within the warnings.
Additional resources
- For more information on running the tests, see Red Hat OpenStack Certification Workflow Guide.
1.3. Red Hat OpenStack Platform certification prerequisites
You must meet the following requirements before applying for an OpenStack Certification.
- Companies must be Partners in Red Hat Connect for Technology Partners. This program enables an ecosystem for commercial OpenStack deployments and includes numerous technology companies.
You must have a support relationship with Red Hat. This can be fulfilled by one of the following ways:
- custom support agreement
- TSANet
- You must have a good working knowledge of RHOSP including installation and configuration of the product
- You must provide a link to an installation guide for the OpenStack plugin being certified. This installation guide must indicate the usage of Red Hat Director for the OpenStack deployment.
Additional Resources
- For more information about the product, see detailed product documentation on Red Hat Customer Portal
- Undertake the product training or certification on Red Hat Training Page.
- For more information about TSANet, see TSANet web page.
1.4. Red Hat OpenStack Platform component distribution
As part of Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), Red Hat distributes components that are committed in a release of the upstream OpenStack project such as Kilo, Liberty, and so on. These components are called In tree components.You are still responsible for certification and for distribution of all their dependencies that are not part of the upstream OpenStack project.
Distribution of products or components that are not committed in the upstream OpenStack project is the responsibility of the Partner. These components are also referred to as Out of tree components.
1.5. Supported RHEL version and architecture
The RHOSP certifications are supported on the following RHEL version and architecture.
| RHOSP version | RHEL version | Architecture |
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| 16.0 | RHEL 8.1 |
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| 16.1 | RHEL 8.2 |
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| 16.2 | RHEL 8.4 |
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| 17.0 | RHEL 9.0 |
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