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- About
- Release notes
- Getting started
- Architecture
- Installing
- Installation overview
- Selecting an installation method and preparing a cluster
- Disconnected installation mirroring
- Installing on Alibaba
- Preparing to install on Alibaba Cloud
- Creating the required Alibaba Cloud resources
- Installing a cluster quickly on Alibaba Cloud
- Installing a cluster on Alibaba Cloud with customizations
- Installing a cluster on Alibaba Cloud with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on Alibaba Cloud into an existing VPC
- Uninstalling a cluster on Alibaba Cloud
- Installing on AWS
- Preparing to install on AWS
- Configuring an AWS account
- Manually creating IAM
- Installing a cluster quickly on AWS
- Installing a cluster on AWS with customizations
- Installing a cluster on AWS with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on AWS in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on AWS into an existing VPC
- Installing a private cluster on AWS
- Installing a cluster on AWS into a government region
- Installing a cluster on AWS into a Secret or Top Secret Region
- Installing a cluster on AWS into a China region
- Installing a cluster on AWS using CloudFormation templates
- Installing a cluster on AWS in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Uninstalling a cluster on AWS
- Installing on Azure
- Preparing to install on Azure
- Configuring an Azure account
- Manually creating IAM
- Enabling user-managed encryption on Azure
- Installing a cluster quickly on Azure
- Installing a cluster on Azure with customizations
- Installing a cluster on Azure with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on Azure into an existing VNet
- Installing a private cluster on Azure
- Installing a cluster on Azure into a government region
- Installing a cluster on Azure using ARM templates
- Uninstalling a cluster on Azure
- Installing on Azure Stack Hub
- Preparing to install on Azure Stack Hub
- Configuring an Azure Stack Hub account
- Installing a cluster on Azure Stack Hub with an installer-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on Azure Stack Hub with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on Azure Stack Hub using ARM templates
- Uninstalling a cluster on Azure Stack Hub
- Installing on GCP
- Preparing to install on GCP
- Configuring a GCP project
- Manually creating IAM
- Installing a cluster quickly on GCP
- Installing a cluster on GCP with customizations
- Installing a cluster on GCP with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on GCP in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on GCP into an existing VPC
- Installing a private cluster on GCP
- Installing a cluster on GCP using Deployment Manager templates
- Installing a cluster into a shared VPC on GCP using Deployment Manager templates
- Installing a cluster on GCP in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Uninstalling a cluster on GCP
- Installing on IBM Cloud VPC
- Installing on Nutanix
- Installing on bare metal
- Installing on-premise with Assisted Installer
- Installing on a single node
- Deploying installer-provisioned clusters on bare metal
- Installing IBM Cloud Bare Metal (Classic)
- Installing with z/VM on IBM Z and LinuxONE
- Installing with RHEL KVM on IBM Z and LinuxONE
- Installing on IBM Power
- Installing on OpenStack
- Preparing to install on OpenStack
- Preparing to install a cluster that uses SR-IOV or OVS-DPDK on OpenStack
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with customizations
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with Kuryr
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack on your own infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with Kuryr on your own infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack in a restricted network
- OpenStack cloud configuration reference guide
- Uninstalling a cluster on OpenStack
- Uninstalling a cluster on OpenStack from your own infrastructure
- Installing on RHV
- Installing on vSphere
- Preparing to install on vSphere
- Installing a cluster on vSphere
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with customizations
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with user-provisioned infrastructure and network customizations
- Installing a cluster on vSphere in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on vSphere in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Uninstalling a cluster on vSphere that uses installer-provisioned infrastructure
- Using the vSphere Problem Detector Operator
- Installing on VMC
- Preparing to install on VMC
- Installing a cluster on VMC
- Installing a cluster on VMC with customizations
- Installing a cluster on VMC with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on VMC in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on VMC with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on VMC with user-provisioned infrastructure and network customizations
- Installing a cluster on VMC in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Uninstalling a cluster on VMC
- Installing on any platform
- Installation configuration
- Validating an installation
- Troubleshooting installation issues
- Support for FIPS cryptography
- Post-installation configuration
- Post-installation configuration overview
- Configuring a private cluster
- Bare metal configuration
- Configuring multi-architecture compute machines on an OpenShift cluster
- Machine configuration tasks
- Cluster tasks
- Node tasks
- Network configuration
- Storage configuration
- Preparing for users
- Configuring alert notifications
- Converting a connected cluster to a disconnected cluster
- Cluster capabilities
- Configuring additional devices in an IBM Z or LinuxONE environment
- Updating clusters
- Updating clusters overview
- Understanding OpenShift updates
- Understanding update channels and releases
- Understanding OpenShift update duration
- Preparing to perform an EUS-to-EUS update
- Preparing to update a cluster with manually maintained credentials
- Updating a cluster using the web console
- Updating a cluster using the CLI
- Performing update using canary rollout strategy
- Updating a cluster that includes RHEL compute machines
- Updating a cluster in a disconnected environment
- Updating hardware on nodes running on vSphere
- Updating a cluster that includes the Special Resource Operator
- Support
- Support overview
- Managing your cluster resources
- Getting support
- Remote health monitoring with connected clusters
- About remote health monitoring
- Showing data collected by remote health monitoring
- Opting out of remote health reporting
- Enabling remote health reporting
- Using Insights to identify issues with your cluster
- Using the Insights Operator
- Using remote health reporting in a restricted network
- Importing simple content access entitlements with Insights Operator
- Gathering data about your cluster
- Summarizing cluster specifications
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting installations
- Verifying node health
- Troubleshooting CRI-O container runtime issues
- Troubleshooting operating system issues
- Troubleshooting network issues
- Troubleshooting Operator issues
- Investigating pod issues
- Troubleshooting the Source-to-Image process
- Troubleshooting storage issues
- Troubleshooting Windows container workload issues
- Investigating monitoring issues
- Diagnosing OpenShift CLI (oc) issues
- Web console
- CLI tools
- Security and compliance
- Security and compliance overview
- Container security
- Understanding container security
- Understanding host and VM security
- Hardening Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS
- Container image signatures
- Understanding compliance
- Securing container content
- Using container registries securely
- Securing the build process
- Deploying containers
- Securing the container platform
- Securing networks
- Securing attached storage
- Monitoring cluster events and logs
- Configuring certificates
- Certificate types and descriptions
- User-provided certificates for the API server
- Proxy certificates
- Service CA certificates
- Node certificates
- Bootstrap certificates
- etcd certificates
- OLM certificates
- Aggregated API client certificates
- Machine Config Operator certificates
- User-provided certificates for default ingress
- Ingress certificates
- Monitoring and cluster logging Operator component certificates
- Control plane certificates
- Compliance Operator
- File Integrity Operator
- cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
- Viewing audit logs
- Configuring the audit log policy
- Configuring TLS security profiles
- Configuring seccomp profiles
- Allowing JavaScript-based access to the API server from additional hosts
- Encrypting etcd data
- Scanning pods for vulnerabilities
- Network-Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE)
- Authentication and authorization
- Authentication and authorization overview
- Understanding authentication
- Configuring the internal OAuth server
- Configuring OAuth clients
- Managing user-owned OAuth access tokens
- Understanding identity provider configuration
- Configuring identity providers
- Configuring an htpasswd identity provider
- Configuring a Keystone identity provider
- Configuring an LDAP identity provider
- Configuring a basic authentication identity provider
- Configuring a request header identity provider
- Configuring a GitHub or GitHub Enterprise identity provider
- Configuring a GitLab identity provider
- Configuring a Google identity provider
- Configuring an OpenID Connect identity provider
- Using RBAC to define and apply permissions
- Removing the kubeadmin user
- Understanding and creating service accounts
- Using service accounts in applications
- Using a service account as an OAuth client
- Scoping tokens
- Using bound service account tokens
- Managing security context constraints
- Understanding and managing pod security admission
- Impersonating the system:admin user
- Syncing LDAP groups
- Managing cloud provider credentials
- Networking
- Understanding networking
- Accessing hosts
- Networking Operators overview
- Understanding the Cluster Network Operator
- Understanding the DNS Operator
- Understanding the Ingress Operator
- Ingress sharding
- Configuring the Ingress Controller endpoint publishing strategy
- Verifying connectivity to an endpoint
- Changing the cluster network MTU
- Configuring the node port service range
- Configuring IP failover
- Configuring interface-level network sysctls
- Using SCTP
- Using PTP hardware
- External DNS Operator
- Understanding the External DNS Operator
- Installing the External DNS Operator
- External DNS Operator configuration parameters
- Creating DNS records on an public hosted zone for AWS
- Creating DNS records on an public zone for Azure
- Creating DNS records on an public managed zone for GCP
- Creating DNS records on a public DNS zone for Infoblox
- Configuring the cluster-wide proxy on the External DNS Operator
- Network policy
- CIDR range definitions
- AWS Load Balancer Operator
- Multiple networks
- Understanding multiple networks
- Configuring an additional network
- About virtual routing and forwarding
- Configuring multi-network policy
- Attaching a pod to an additional network
- Removing a pod from an additional network
- Editing an additional network
- Removing an additional network
- Assigning a secondary network to a VRF
- Hardware networks
- About Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) hardware networks
- Installing the SR-IOV Operator
- Configuring the SR-IOV Operator
- Configuring an SR-IOV network device
- Configuring an SR-IOV Ethernet network attachment
- Configuring an SR-IOV InfiniBand network attachment
- Adding a pod to an SR-IOV network
- Tuning sysctl settings on an SR-IOV network
- Using high performance multicast
- Using DPDK and RDMA
- Using pod-level bonding for secondary networks
- Configuring hardware offloading
- Uninstalling the SR-IOV Operator
- OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider
- About the OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider
- Configuring egress IPs for a project
- Configuring an egress firewall for a project
- Viewing an egress firewall for a project
- Editing an egress firewall for a project
- Removing an egress firewall from a project
- Considerations for the use of an egress router pod
- Deploying an egress router pod in redirect mode
- Deploying an egress router pod in HTTP proxy mode
- Deploying an egress router pod in DNS proxy mode
- Configuring an egress router pod destination list from a config map
- Enabling multicast for a project
- Disabling multicast for a project
- Configuring multitenant isolation
- Configuring kube-proxy
- OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider
- About the OVN-Kubernetes network provider
- Migrating from the OpenShift SDN cluster network provider
- Rolling back to the OpenShift SDN cluster network provider
- Converting to IPv4/IPv6 dual stack networking
- Configuring IPsec encryption
- Configuring an egress firewall for a project
- Viewing an egress firewall for a project
- Editing an egress firewall for a project
- Removing an egress firewall from a project
- Configuring an egress IP address
- Assigning an egress IP address
- Considerations for the use of an egress router pod
- Deploying an egress router pod in redirect mode
- Enabling multicast for a project
- Disabling multicast for a project
- Tracking network flows
- Configuring hybrid networking
- Configuring Routes
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic
- Overview
- Configuring ExternalIPs for services
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using an Ingress Controller
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a load balancer
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic on AWS
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a service external IP
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a NodePort
- Kubernetes NMState
- Configuring the cluster-wide proxy
- Configuring a custom PKI
- Load balancing on OpenStack
- Load balancing with MetalLB
- About MetalLB and the MetalLB Operator
- Installing the MetalLB Operator
- Upgrading the MetalLB Operator
- Configuring MetalLB address pools
- Advertising the IP address pools
- Configuring MetalLB BGP peers
- Advertising an IP address pool using the community alias
- Configuring MetalLB BFD profiles
- Configuring services to use MetalLB
- MetalLB logging, troubleshooting, and support
- Associating secondary interfaces metrics to network attachments
- Storage
- Storage overview
- Understanding ephemeral storage
- Understanding persistent storage
- Configuring persistent storage
- Persistent storage using AWS Elastic Block Store
- Persistent storage using Azure Disk
- Persistent storage using Azure File
- Persistent storage using Cinder
- Persistent storage using Fibre Channel
- Persistent storage using FlexVolume
- Persistent storage using GCE Persistent Disk
- Persistent storage using hostPath
- Persistent Storage using iSCSI
- Persistent storage using local volumes
- Persistent storage using NFS
- Persistent storage using Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation
- Persistent storage using VMware vSphere
- Using Container Storage Interface (CSI)
- Configuring CSI volumes
- CSI inline ephemeral volumes
- Shared Resource CSI Driver Operator
- CSI volume snapshots
- CSI volume cloning
- CSI automatic migration
- AliCloud Disk CSI Driver Operator
- AWS Elastic Block Store CSI Driver Operator
- AWS Elastic File Service CSI Driver Operator
- Azure Disk CSI Driver Operator
- Azure File CSI Driver Operator
- Azure Stack Hub CSI Driver Operator
- GCP PD CSI Driver Operator
- IBM VPC Block CSI Driver Operator
- OpenStack Cinder CSI Driver Operator
- OpenStack Manila CSI Driver Operator
- Red Hat Virtualization CSI Driver Operator
- VMware vSphere CSI Driver Operator
- Generic ephemeral volumes
- Expanding persistent volumes
- Dynamic provisioning
- Registry
- Registry overview
- Image Registry Operator in OpenShift Container Platform
- Setting up and configuring the registry
- Configuring the registry for AWS user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for GCP user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for OpenStack user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for Azure user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for OpenStack
- Configuring the registry for bare metal
- Configuring the registry for vSphere
- Configuring the registry for OpenShift Data Foundation
- Configuring the registry for Nutanix
- Accessing the registry
- Exposing the registry
- Operators
- Operators overview
- Understanding Operators
- User tasks
- Administrator tasks
- Adding Operators to a cluster
- Updating installed Operators
- Deleting Operators from a cluster
- Configuring OLM features
- Configuring proxy support
- Viewing Operator status
- Managing Operator conditions
- Allowing non-cluster administrators to install Operators
- Managing custom catalogs
- Using OLM on restricted networks
- Catalog source pod scheduling
- Developing Operators
- About the Operator SDK
- Installing the Operator SDK CLI
- Go-based Operators
- Ansible-based Operators
- Helm-based Operators
- Java-based Operators
- Defining cluster service versions (CSVs)
- Working with bundle images
- Complying with pod security admission
- Validating Operators using the scorecard
- Validating Operator bundles
- High-availability or single-node cluster detection and support
- Configuring built-in monitoring with Prometheus
- Configuring leader election
- Object pruning utility
- Migrating package manifest projects to bundle format
- Operator SDK CLI reference
- Cluster Operators reference
- CI/CD
- CI/CD overview
- Builds
- Understanding image builds
- Understanding build configurations
- Creating build inputs
- Managing build output
- Using build strategies
- Custom image builds with Buildah
- Performing and configuring basic builds
- Triggering and modifying builds
- Performing advanced builds
- Using Red Hat subscriptions in builds
- Securing builds by strategy
- Build configuration resources
- Troubleshooting builds
- Setting up additional trusted certificate authorities for builds
- Pipelines
- GitOps
- Jenkins
- Images
- Overview of images
- Configuring the Cluster Samples Operator
- Using the Cluster Samples Operator with an alternate registry
- Creating images
- Managing images
- Managing image streams
- Using image streams with Kubernetes resources
- Triggering updates on image stream changes
- Image configuration resources
- Using templates
- Using Ruby on Rails
- Using images
- Building applications
- Building applications overview
- Projects
- Creating applications
- Viewing application composition using the Topology view
- Exporting applications
- Connecting applications to services
- Service Binding Operator release notes
- Understanding Service Binding Operator
- Installing Service Binding Operator
- Getting started with service binding
- Getting started with service binding on IBM Power, IBM Z, and LinuxONE
- Exposing binding data from a service
- Projecting binding data
- Binding workloads using Service Binding Operator
- Connecting an application to a service using the Developer perspective
- Working with Helm charts
- Deployments
- Quotas
- Using config maps with applications
- Monitoring project and application metrics using the Developer perspective
- Monitoring application health
- Editing applications
- Pruning objects to reclaim resources
- Idling applications
- Deleting applications
- Using the Red Hat Marketplace
- Serverless
- Machine management
- Overview of machine management
- Managing compute machines with the Machine API
- Creating a machine set on Alibaba Cloud
- Creating a machine set on AWS
- Creating a machine set on Azure
- Creating a machine set on Azure Stack Hub
- Creating a machine set on GCP
- Creating a machine set on IBM Cloud
- Creating a machine set on Nutanix
- Creating a machine set on OpenStack
- Creating a machine set on RHV
- Creating a machine set on vSphere
- Creating a compute machine set on bare metal
- Manually scaling a machine set
- Modifying a machine set
- Machine phases and lifecycle
- Deleting a machine
- Applying autoscaling to a cluster
- Creating infrastructure machine sets
- Adding a RHEL compute machine
- Adding more RHEL compute machines
- Managing user-provisioned infrastructure manually
- Managing machines with the Cluster API
- Deploying machine health checks
- Nodes
- Overview of nodes
- Working with pods
- About pods
- Viewing pods
- Configuring a cluster for pods
- Automatically scaling pods with the horizontal pod autoscaler
- Automatically adjust pod resource levels with the vertical pod autoscaler
- Providing sensitive data to pods
- Creating and using config maps
- Using Device Manager to make devices available to nodes
- Including pod priority in pod scheduling decisions
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Automatically scaling pods with the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator
- Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator overview
- Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator release notes
- Installing the custom metrics autoscaler
- Understanding the custom metrics autoscaler triggers
- Understanding custom metrics autoscaler trigger authentications
- Pausing the custom metrics autoscaler
- Gathering audit logs
- Gathering debugging data
- Viewing Operator metrics
- Understanding how to add custom metrics autoscalers
- Removing the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator
- Controlling pod placement onto nodes (scheduling)
- About pod placement using the scheduler
- Scheduling pods using a scheduler profile
- Placing pods relative to other pods using pod affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Controlling pod placement on nodes using node affinity rules
- Placing pods onto overcommited nodes
- Controlling pod placement using node taints
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Controlling pod placement using pod topology spread constraints
- Evicting pods using the descheduler
- Secondary scheduler
- Using Jobs and DaemonSets
- Working with nodes
- Viewing and listing the nodes in your cluster
- Working with nodes
- Managing nodes
- Managing the maximum number of pods per node
- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Remediating nodes with the Self Node Remediation Operator
- Deploying node health checks by using the Node Health Check Operator
- Using the Node Maintenance Operator to place nodes in maintenance mode
- Understanding node rebooting
- Freeing node resources using garbage collection
- Allocating resources for nodes
- Allocating specific CPUs for nodes in a cluster
- Enabling TLS security profiles for the kubelet
- Machine Config Daemon metrics
- Creating infrastructure nodes
- Working with containers
- Using containers
- Using Init Containers to perform tasks before a pod is deployed
- Using volumes to persist container data
- Mapping volumes using projected volumes
- Allowing containers to consume API objects
- Copying files to or from a container
- Executing remote commands in a container
- Using port forwarding to access applications in a container
- Using sysctls in containers
- Working with clusters
- Viewing system event information in a cluster
- Analyzing cluster resource levels
- Setting limit ranges
- Configuring cluster memory to meet container memory and risk requirements
- Configuring your cluster to place pods on overcommited nodes
- Enabling features using FeatureGates
- Improving cluster stability in high latency environments using worker latency profiles
- Remote worker nodes on the network edge
- Worker nodes for single-node OpenShift clusters
- Windows Container Support for OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers overview
- Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers release notes
- Understanding Windows container workloads
- Enabling Windows container workloads
- Creating Windows machine sets
- Scheduling Windows container workloads
- Windows node upgrades
- Using Bring-Your-Own-Host Windows instances as nodes
- Removing Windows nodes
- Disabling Windows container workloads
- Sandboxed Containers Support for OpenShift
- OpenShift sandboxed containers release notes
- Understanding OpenShift sandboxed containers
- Deploying OpenShift sandboxed containers workloads
- Monitoring OpenShift sandboxed containers
- Uninstalling OpenShift sandboxed containers
- Upgrading OpenShift sandboxed containers
- Collecting OpenShift sandboxed containers data
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Monitoring overview
- Configuring the monitoring stack
- Enabling monitoring for user-defined projects
- Enabling alert routing for user-defined projects
- Managing metrics
- Querying metrics
- Managing metrics targets
- Managing alerts
- Reviewing monitoring dashboards
- The NVIDIA GPU administration dashboard
- Accessing third-party monitoring APIs
- Troubleshooting monitoring issues
- Config map reference for the Cluster Monitoring Operator
- Cluster Observability Operator
- Distributed tracing
- Distributed tracing release notes
- Distributed tracing 3.0
- Distributed tracing 2.9.2
- Distributed tracing 2.9.1
- Distributed tracing 2.9
- Distributed tracing 2.8
- Distributed tracing 2.7
- Distributed tracing 2.6
- Distributed tracing 2.5
- Distributed tracing 2.4
- Distributed tracing 2.3
- Distributed tracing 2.2
- Distributed tracing 2.1
- Distributed tracing 2.0
- Distributed tracing architecture
- Distributed tracing platform (Jaeger)
- Distributed tracing platform (Tempo)
- Distributed tracing release notes
- Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry
- Network Observability
- Network Observability release notes
- Network Observability overview
- Installing the Network Observability Operator
- Understanding Network Observability Operator
- Configuring the Network Observability Operator
- Network Policy
- Observing the network traffic
- Monitoring the Network Observability Operator
- API reference
- JSON flows format reference
- Troubleshooting Network Observability
- Scalability and performance
- Recommended host practices
- Recommended host practices for IBM Z & LinuxONE environments
- Recommended cluster scaling practices
- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Using CPU Manager and Topology Manager
- Scheduling NUMA-aware workloads
- Scaling the Cluster Monitoring Operator
- Planning your environment according to object maximums
- Optimizing storage
- Optimizing routing
- Optimizing networking
- Managing bare metal hosts
- Monitoring bare-metal events
- What huge pages do and how they are consumed by apps
- Low latency tuning
- Performing latency tests for platform verification
- Improving cluster stability in high latency environments using worker latency profiles
- Topology Aware Lifecycle Manager for cluster updates
- Creating a performance profile
- Workload partitioning in single-node OpenShift
- Requesting CRI-O and Kubelet profiling data by using the Node Observability Operator
- Clusters at the network far edge
- Challenges of the network far edge
- Preparing the hub cluster for ZTP
- Installing managed clusters with RHACM and SiteConfig resources
- Configuring managed clusters with policies and PolicyGenTemplate resources
- Manually installing a single-node OpenShift cluster with ZTP
- Recommended single-node OpenShift cluster configuration for vDU application workloads
- Validating cluster tuning for vDU application workloads
- Advanced managed cluster configuration with SiteConfig resources
- Advanced managed cluster configuration with PolicyGenTemplate resources
- Updating managed clusters with the Topology Aware Lifecycle Manager
- Updating GitOps ZTP
- Specialized hardware and driver enablement
- Backup and restore
- Overview of backup and restore operations
- Shutting down a cluster gracefully
- Restarting a cluster gracefully
- OADP Application backup and restore
- Control plane backup and restore
- Migrating from version 3 to 4
- Migrating from version 3 to 4 overview
- About migrating from OpenShift Container Platform 3 to 4
- Differences between OpenShift Container Platform 3 and 4
- Network considerations
- About MTC
- Installing MTC
- Installing MTC in a restricted network environment
- Upgrading MTC
- Premigration checklists
- Migrating your applications
- Advanced migration options
- Troubleshooting
- Migration Toolkit for Containers
- API reference
- Understanding API tiers
- API compatibility guidelines
- Editing kubelet log level verbosity and gathering logs
- API list
- Common object reference
- Authorization APIs
- About Authorization APIs
- LocalResourceAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- LocalSubjectAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- ResourceAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectRulesReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SubjectAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SubjectRulesReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- TokenRequest [authentication.k8s.io/v1]
- TokenReview [authentication.k8s.io/v1]
- LocalSubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectRulesReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- Autoscale APIs
- Config APIs
- About Config APIs
- APIServer [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Authentication [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Build [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterOperator [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterVersion [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Console [config.openshift.io/v1]
- DNS [config.openshift.io/v1]
- FeatureGate [config.openshift.io/v1]
- HelmChartRepository [helm.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Image [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageContentPolicy [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Infrastructure [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Node [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OAuth [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Project [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ProjectHelmChartRepository [helm.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Proxy [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Scheduler [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Console APIs
- About Console APIs
- ConsoleCLIDownload [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleExternalLogLink [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleLink [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleNotification [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsolePlugin [console.openshift.io/v1alpha1]
- ConsoleQuickStart [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleYAMLSample [console.openshift.io/v1]
- Extension APIs
- Image APIs
- About Image APIs
- Image [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageSignature [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamImage [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamImport [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamLayers [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamMapping [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStream [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- SecretList [image.openshift.io/v1]
- Machine APIs
- About Machine APIs
- ContainerRuntimeConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- ControllerConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeletConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfigPool [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineHealthCheck [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Machine [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- MachineSet [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Metadata APIs
- Monitoring APIs
- About Monitoring APIs
- Alertmanager [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- AlertmanagerConfig [monitoring.coreos.com/v1beta1]
- PodMonitor [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- Probe [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- Prometheus [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- PrometheusRule [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- ServiceMonitor [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- ThanosRuler [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- Network APIs
- About Network APIs
- ClusterNetwork [network.openshift.io/v1]
- CloudPrivateIPConfig [cloud.network.openshift.io/v1]
- Endpoints [v1]
- EndpointSlice [discovery.k8s.io/v1]
- EgressNetworkPolicy [network.openshift.io/v1]
- EgressRouter [network.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- HostSubnet [network.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- IngressClass [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- IPPool [whereabouts.cni.cncf.io/v1alpha1]
- NetNamespace [network.openshift.io/v1]
- NetworkAttachmentDefinition [k8s.cni.cncf.io/v1]
- NetworkPolicy [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- OverlappingRangeIPReservation [whereabouts.cni.cncf.io/v1alpha1]
- PodNetworkConnectivityCheck [controlplane.operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1]
- Route [route.openshift.io/v1]
- Service [v1]
- Node APIs
- OAuth APIs
- Operator APIs
- About Operator APIs
- Authentication [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- CloudCredential [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterCSIDriver [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Console [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [samples.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- CSISnapshotController [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- DNS [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- DNSRecord [ingress.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Etcd [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageContentSourcePolicy [operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1]
- ImagePruner [imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- IngressController [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeAPIServer [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeControllerManager [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeScheduler [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeStorageVersionMigrator [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OpenShiftAPIServer [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OpenShiftControllerManager [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorPKI [network.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceCA [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Storage [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub APIs
- About OperatorHub APIs
- CatalogSource [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- ClusterServiceVersion [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- InstallPlan [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- OLMConfig [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- Operator [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- OperatorCondition [operators.coreos.com/v2]
- OperatorGroup [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- PackageManifest [packages.operators.coreos.com/v1]
- Subscription [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- Policy APIs
- Project APIs
- Provisioning APIs
- RBAC APIs
- Role APIs
- Schedule and quota APIs
- About Schedule and quota APIs
- AppliedClusterResourceQuota [quota.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterResourceQuota [quota.openshift.io/v1]
- FlowSchema [flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2]
- LimitRange [v1]
- PriorityClass [scheduling.k8s.io/v1]
- PriorityLevelConfiguration [flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2]
- ResourceQuota [v1]
- Security APIs
- About Security APIs
- CertificateSigningRequest [certificates.k8s.io/v1]
- CredentialsRequest [cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicyReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicySelfSubjectReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicySubjectReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- RangeAllocation [security.openshift.io/v1]
- Secret [v1]
- SecurityContextConstraints [security.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceAccount [v1]
- Storage APIs
- About Storage APIs
- CSIDriver [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSINode [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSIStorageCapacity [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- PersistentVolumeClaim [v1]
- StorageClass [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- StorageState [migration.k8s.io/v1alpha1]
- StorageVersionMigration [migration.k8s.io/v1alpha1]
- VolumeAttachment [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeSnapshot [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeSnapshotClass [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeSnapshotContent [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1]
- Template APIs
- User and group APIs
- Workloads APIs
- About Workloads APIs
- BuildConfig [build.openshift.io/v1]
- Build [build.openshift.io/v1]
- BuildLog [build.openshift.io/v1]
- BuildRequest [build.openshift.io/v1]
- CronJob [batch/v1]
- DaemonSet [apps/v1]
- Deployment [apps/v1]
- DeploymentConfig [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- DeploymentConfigRollback [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- DeploymentLog [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- DeploymentRequest [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- Job [batch/v1]
- Pod [v1]
- ReplicationController [v1]
- PersistentVolume [v1]
- ReplicaSet [apps/v1]
- StatefulSet [apps/v1]
- Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 2.x
- About OpenShift Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 2.x release notes
- Service Mesh architecture
- Service Mesh deployment models
- Service Mesh and Istio differences
- Preparing to install Service Mesh
- Installing the Operators
- Creating the ServiceMeshControlPlane
- Adding services to a service mesh
- Enabling sidecar injection
- Upgrading Service Mesh
- Managing users and profiles
- Security
- Traffic management
- Metrics, logs, and traces
- Performance and scalability
- Deploying to production
- Federation
- Extensions
- 3scale WebAssembly for 2.1
- 3scale Istio adapter for 2.0
- Troubleshooting Service Mesh
- Control plane configuration reference
- Kiali configuration reference
- Jaeger configuration reference
- Uninstalling Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 1.x
- Service Mesh 1.x release notes
- Service Mesh architecture
- Service Mesh and Istio differences
- Preparing to install Service Mesh
- Installing Service Mesh
- Security
- Traffic management
- Deploying applications on Service Mesh
- Data visualization and observability
- Custom resources
- 3scale Istio adapter for 1.x
- Removing Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 2.x
- Virtualization
- About OpenShift Virtualization
- OpenShift Virtualization architecture
- Getting started with OpenShift Virtualization
- OpenShift Virtualization release notes
- Installing
- Updating OpenShift Virtualization
- Security policies
- Using the CLI tools
- Virtual machines
- Creating virtual machines
- Editing virtual machines
- Editing boot order
- Deleting virtual machines
- Managing virtual machine instances
- Controlling virtual machine states
- Accessing virtual machine consoles
- Automating Windows installation with sysprep
- Triggering virtual machine failover by resolving a failed node
- Installing the QEMU guest agent on virtual machines
- Viewing the QEMU guest agent information for virtual machines
- Managing config maps, secrets, and service accounts in virtual machines
- Installing VirtIO driver on an existing Windows virtual machine
- Installing VirtIO driver on a new Windows virtual machine
- Using virtual Trusted Platform Module devices
- Advanced virtual machine management
- Working with resource quotas for virtual machines
- Specifying nodes for virtual machines
- Configuring certificate rotation
- UEFI mode for virtual machines
- Configuring PXE booting for virtual machines
- Using huge pages with virtual machines
- Enabling dedicated resources for a virtual machine
- Scheduling virtual machines
- Configuring PCI passthrough
- Configuring vGPU passthrough
- Configuring mediated devices
- Configuring a watchdog device
- Automatic importing and updating of pre-defined boot sources
- Enabling descheduler evictions on virtual machines
- Importing virtual machines
- Cloning virtual machines
- Virtual machine networking
- Configuring a virtual machine for the default pod network
- Creating a service to expose a virtual machine
- Connecting a virtual machine to a Linux bridge network
- Connecting a virtual machine to an SR-IOV network
- Connecting a virtual machine to a service mesh
- Configuring IP addresses for virtual machines
- Viewing the IP address of NICs on a virtual machine
- Using a MAC address pool for virtual machines
- Virtual machine disks
- Features for storage
- Configuring local storage for virtual machines
- Creating data volumes
- Reserving PVC space for file system overhead
- Configuring CDI to work with namespaces that have a compute resource quota
- Managing data volume annotations
- Using preallocation for data volumes
- Uploading local disk images by using the web console
- Uploading local disk images by using the virtctl tool
- Uploading a local disk image to a block storage data volume
- Managing virtual machine snapshots
- Moving a local virtual machine disk to a different node
- Expanding virtual storage by adding blank disk images
- Cloning a data volume using smart-cloning
- Creating and using boot sources
- Hot plugging virtual disks
- Using container disks with virtual machines
- Preparing CDI scratch space
- Re-using statically provisioned persistent volumes
- Expanding a virtual machine disk
- Deleting data volumes
- Virtual machine templates
- Live migration
- Virtual machine live migration
- Live migration limits and timeouts
- Migrating a virtual machine instance to another node
- Migrating a virtual machine over a dedicated additional network
- Monitoring live migration of a virtual machine instance
- Cancelling the live migration of a virtual machine instance
- Configuring virtual machine eviction strategy
- Configuring live migration policies
- Node maintenance
- Logging, events, and monitoring
- Reviewing virtualization overview
- Viewing OpenShift Virtualization logs
- Viewing events
- Diagnosing data volumes using events and conditions
- Viewing information about virtual machine workloads
- Monitoring virtual machine health
- Viewing cluster information
- Reviewing resource usage by virtual machines
- OpenShift cluster monitoring, logging, and Telemetry
- Running OpenShift cluster checkups
- Prometheus queries for virtual resources
- Exposing custom metrics for virtual machines
- OpenShift Virtualization critical alerts
- Collecting data for Red Hat Support
- Backup and restore
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Getting started with OpenShift Virtualization
You can install and configure a basic OpenShift Virtualization environment to explore its features and functionality.
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Cluster configuration procedures require |
Before you begin
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Prepare your cluster for OpenShift Virtualization.
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Review the storage requirements for cloning, snapshots, and live migration.
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Install the OpenShift Virtualization Operator.
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Install the
virtctltool.
Getting started
Create a virtual machine:
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Quick create a virtual machine using the web console.
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Create and customize Windows boot sources.
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Install VirtIO drivers and the QEMU guest agent on the virtual machine.
Connect to a virtual machine:
- Connect to a virtual machine
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Connect to the serial console or VNC console of a virtual machine using the web console.
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Connect to a virtual machine using SSH.
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Connect to a Windows virtual machine using RDP.
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- Manage a virtual machine
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Stop, start, pause, and restart a virtual machine from the web console.
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Manage a virtual machine, expose a port, and connect to the serial console of a virtual machine from the command line with
virtctl.
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Next steps
- Connect VMs to secondary networks
- Monitor your OpenShift Virtualization environment
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Monitor resources, details, status, and top consumers on the Virtualization Overview page.
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View high-level information about your virtual machines on the Virtual Machines dashboard.
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View virtual machine logs.
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- Automating deployments
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Automate Windows virtual machine deployments with
sysprep.
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