Preface

Deploying applications to a container orchestration platform such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides a number of advantages from an operational perspective. For example, an update to the base image of an application can be made through a simple in-place upgrade with little to no disruption. Upgrading the required operating system of an application deployed to traditional virtual machines can be a much more disruptive and risky process.

Although application and operator developers can provide many options to OpenShift Container Platform users regarding the deployment of the application, these configurations must be provided by the end user because they are dependent on the configuration of OpenShift Container Platform.

For example, use of node labels in the OpenShift cluster can help ensure different workloads are run on specific nodes. This type of configuration must be provided by the user as the Ansible Automation Platform Operator has no way of inferring this.