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- About
- Release notes
- Architecture
- Installing
- Installation overview
- Selecting an installation method and preparing a cluster
- Mirroring images for a disconnected installation
- 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 or secret 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
- 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 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 bare metal
- Deploying installer-provisioned clusters on bare metal
- Installing with z/VM on IBM Z and LinuxONE
- Installing with RHEL KVM on IBM Z and LinuxONE
- Installing on IBM Power Systems
- Installing on OpenStack
- Preparing to install on OpenStack
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with customizations
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with Kuryr
- Installing a cluster that supports SR-IOV compute machines on OpenStack
- 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 on your own SR-IOV infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack in a restricted network
- 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
- Updating clusters
- Understanding OpenShift updates
- Updating clusters overview
- Understanding upgrade channels
- Preparing to perform an EUS-to-EUS update
- 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
- Support
- Support overview
- Managing your cluster resources
- Getting support
- Remote health monitoring with connected clusters
- 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
- Compliance Operator release notes
- Supported compliance profiles
- Installing the Compliance Operator
- Updating the Compliance Operator
- Compliance Operator scans
- Understanding the Compliance Operator
- Managing the Compliance Operator
- Tailoring the Compliance Operator
- Retrieving Compliance Operator raw results
- Managing Compliance Operator remediation
- Performing advanced Compliance Operator tasks
- Troubleshooting the Compliance Operator
- Uninstalling the Compliance Operator
- Using the oc-compliance plugin
- Understanding the Custom Resource Definitions
- File Integrity Operator
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Verifying connectivity to an endpoint
- Configuring the node port service range
- Configuring IP failover
- Using SCTP
- Configuring PTP hardware
- Network policy
- 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
- Using high performance multicast
- Using DPDK and RDMA
- 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
- IPsec encryption configuration
- 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 using a Network Load Balancer
- 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
- 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 Container Storage
- Persistent storage using VMware vSphere
- Using Container Storage Interface (CSI)
- Configuring CSI volumes
- CSI inline ephemeral volumes
- CSI volume snapshots
- CSI volume cloning
- CSI automatic migration
- AWS Elastic Block Store CSI Driver Operator
- Azure Disk CSI Driver Operator
- GCP PD CSI Driver Operator
- OpenStack Cinder CSI Driver Operator
- OpenStack Manila CSI Driver Operator
- Red Hat Virtualization CSI Driver Operator
- VMware vSphere CSI Driver Operator
- 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
- Accessing the registry
- Exposing the registry
- Operators
- Operators overview
- Understanding Operators
- User tasks
- Administrator tasks
- Developing Operators
- About the Operator SDK
- Installing the Operator SDK CLI
- Upgrading projects for newer Operator SDK versions
- Go-based Operators
- Ansible-based Operators
- Helm-based Operators
- Defining cluster service versions (CSVs)
- Working with bundle images
- Validating Operators using the scorecard
- Configuring built-in monitoring with Prometheus
- Configuring leader election
- 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 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
- Migrating from Jenkins to Tekton
- Pipelines
- OpenShift Pipelines release notes
- Understanding OpenShift Pipelines
- Installing OpenShift Pipelines
- Uninstalling OpenShift Pipelines
- Creating CI/CD solutions for applications using OpenShift Pipelines
- Working with OpenShift Pipelines using the Developer perspective
- Reducing resource consumption of OpenShift Pipelines
- Using pods in a privileged security context
- Securing webhooks with event listeners
- Authenticating pipelines using git secret
- Viewing pipeline logs using the OpenShift Logging Operator
- GitOps
- OpenShift GitOps release notes
- Understanding OpenShift GitOps
- Installing OpenShift GitOps
- Uninstalling OpenShift GitOps
- Configuring an OpenShift cluster by deploying an application with cluster configurations
- Deploying a Spring Boot application with Argo CD
- Configuring SSO for Argo CD using Dex
- Configuring SSO for Argo CD using Keycloak
- Running Control Plane Workloads on Infra nodes
- Sizing requirements for GitOps Operator
- 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
- 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
- Machine management
- Overview of machine management
- Creating machine sets
- Manually scaling a machine set
- Modifying a machine set
- Deleting a machine
- Applying autoscaling to a cluster
- Creating infrastructure machine sets
- Adding a RHEL compute machine
- Adding more RHEL compute machines
- User-provisioned infrastructure
- 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
- Controlling pod placement onto nodes (scheduling)
- About pod placement using the scheduler
- Configuring the default scheduler to control pod placement
- 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
- Running a custom scheduler
- Evicting pods using the descheduler
- 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 Poison Pill Operator
- Understanding node rebooting
- Freeing node resources using garbage collection
- Allocating resources for nodes
- Allocating specific CPUs for nodes in a cluster
- Configuring the TLS security profile 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
- Remote worker nodes on the network edge
- 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 MachineSet objects
- 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
- Logging
- Release notes
- About Logging
- Installing Logging
- Configuring your Logging deployment
- About the Cluster Logging custom resource
- Configuring the logging collector
- Configuring the log store
- Configuring the log visualizer
- Configuring Logging storage
- Configuring CPU and memory limits for Logging components
- Using tolerations to control Logging pod placement
- Moving the Logging resources with node selectors
- Configuring systemd-journald for Logging
- Maintenance and support
- Viewing logs for a specific resource
- Viewing cluster logs in Kibana
- Forwarding logs to third party systems
- Enabling JSON logging
- Collecting and storing Kubernetes events
- Updating Logging
- Viewing cluster dashboards
- Troubleshooting Logging
- Uninstalling Logging
- Exported fields
- Monitoring
- Metering
- Scalability and performance
- Recommended host practices
- Recommended host practices for IBM Z & LinuxONE environments
- Recommended cluster scaling practices
- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Using Cluster Loader
- Using CPU Manager
- Using Topology Manager
- Scaling the Cluster Monitoring Operator
- The Node Feature Discovery Operator
- The Driver Toolkit
- Planning your environment according to object maximums
- Optimizing storage
- Optimizing routing
- Optimizing networking
- Managing bare metal hosts
- What huge pages do and how they are consumed by apps
- Performance Addon Operator for low latency nodes
- Performing latency tests for platform verification
- Creating a performance profile
- 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]
- 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]
- Infrastructure [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OAuth [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Project [config.openshift.io/v1]
- 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]
- ImageStreamMapping [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStream [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageTag [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/v1alpha1]
- 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]
- Endpoints [core/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]
- PodNetworkConnectivityCheck [controlplane.operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1]
- Route [route.openshift.io/v1]
- Service [core/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]
- Operator [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- OperatorCondition [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- 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/v1beta1]
- LimitRange [core/v1]
- PriorityClass [scheduling.k8s.io/v1]
- PriorityLevelConfiguration [flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- ResourceQuota [core/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 [core/v1]
- SecurityContextConstraints [security.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceAccount [core/v1]
- Storage APIs
- About Storage APIs
- CSIDriver [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSINode [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSIStorageCapacity [storage.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- PersistentVolumeClaim [core/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]
- CronJob [batch/v1]
- DaemonSet [apps/v1]
- Deployment [apps/v1]
- DeploymentConfig [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- Job [batch/v1]
- Pod [core/v1]
- ReplicationController [core/v1]
- PersistentVolume [core/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 workloads 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
- Distributed tracing
- OpenShift Virtualization
- About OpenShift Virtualization
- Start here with OpenShift Virtualization
- OpenShift Virtualization release notes
- Installing OpenShift Virtualization
- Preparing your cluster for OpenShift Virtualization
- Specifying nodes for OpenShift Virtualization components
- Installing OpenShift Virtualization using the web console
- Installing OpenShift Virtualization using the CLI
- Installing the virtctl client
- Uninstalling OpenShift Virtualization using the web console
- Uninstalling OpenShift Virtualization using the CLI
- Upgrading OpenShift Virtualization
- Additional security privileges granted for kubevirt-controller and virt-launcher
- 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
- 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
- Advanced virtual machine management
- Working with resource quotas for virtual machines
- Specifying nodes for virtual machines
- Configuring certificate rotation
- Automating management tasks
- EFI mode for virtual machines
- Configuring PXE booting for virtual machines
- Managing guest memory
- Using huge pages with virtual machines
- Enabling dedicated resources for a virtual machine
- Scheduling virtual machines
- Configuring PCI passthrough
- Configuring a watchdog device
- Importing virtual machines
- Cloning virtual machines
- Virtual machine networking
- Configuring the virtual machine for the default pod network
- Creating a service to expose a virtual machine
- Attaching a virtual machine to a Linux bridge network
- Configuring IP addresses for virtual machines
- Configuring an SR-IOV network device for virtual machines
- Defining an SR-IOV network
- Attaching a virtual machine to an SR-IOV network
- 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 offline 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
- Deleting data volumes
- Virtual machine templates
- Live migration
- Node maintenance
- Node networking
- Logging, events, and monitoring
- Viewing logs
- Viewing events
- Diagnosing data volumes using events and conditions
- Viewing information about virtual machine workloads
- Monitoring virtual machine health
- Viewing cluster information
- OpenShift cluster monitoring, logging, and Telemetry
- Prometheus queries for virtual resources
- Collecting data for Red Hat Support
- Serverless
- Release notes
- Discover
- Install
- Knative CLI
- Develop
- Serverless applications
- Autoscaling
- Traffic management
- Routing
- Event sinks
- Event delivery
- Listing event sources and event source types
- Creating an API server source
- Creating a ping source
- Custom event sources
- Creating channels
- Creating and managing subscriptions
- Creating brokers
- Triggers
- Using Knative Kafka
- Administer
- Monitor
- Tracing
- Support
- Security
- Functions
- Setting up OpenShift Serverless Functions
- Getting started with functions
- On-cluster function building and deploying
- Developing Quarkus functions
- Developing Node.js functions
- Developing TypeScript functions
- Using functions with Knative Eventing
- Function project configuration in func.yaml
- Accessing secrets and config maps from functions
- Adding annotations to functions
- Functions development reference guide
- Integrations
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Preparing to install on vSphere
Prerequisites
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You reviewed details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
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You read the documentation on selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users.
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If you use a firewall and plan to use Telemetry, you configured the firewall to allow the sites required by your cluster.
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You reviewed your VMware platform licenses. Red Hat does not place any restrictions on your VMware licenses, but some VMware infrastructure components require licensing.
Choosing a method to install OpenShift Container Platform on vSphere
You can install OpenShift Container Platform on vSphere by using installer-provisioned or user-provisioned infrastructure. The default installation type uses installer-provisioned infrastructure, where the installation program provisions the underlying infrastructure for the cluster. You can also install OpenShift Container Platform on infrastructure that you provide. If you do not use infrastructure that the installation program provisions, you must manage and maintain the cluster resources yourself.
See the Installation process for more information about installer-provisioned and user-provisioned installation processes.
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The steps for performing a user-provisioned infrastructure installation are provided as an example only. Installing a cluster with infrastructure you provide requires knowledge of the vSphere platform and the installation process of OpenShift Container Platform. Use the user-provisioned infrastructure installation instructions as a guide; you are free to create the required resources through other methods. |
Installer-provisioned infrastructure installation of OpenShift Container Platform on vSphere
Installer-provisioned infrastructure allows the installation program to pre-configure and automate the provisioning of resources required by OpenShift Container Platform.
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Installing a cluster on vSphere: You can install OpenShift Container Platform on vSphere by using installer-provisioned infrastructure installation with no customization.
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Installing a cluster on vSphere with customizations: You can install OpenShift Container Platform on vSphere by using installer-provisioned infrastructure installation with the default customization options.
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Installing a cluster on vSphere with network customizations: You can install OpenShift Container Platform on installer-provisioned vSphere infrastructure, with network customizations. You can customize your OpenShift Container Platform network configuration during installation, so that your cluster can coexist with your existing IP address allocations and adhere to your network requirements.
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Installing a cluster on vSphere in a restricted network: You can install a cluster on VMware vSphere infrastructure in a restricted network by creating an internal mirror of the installation release content. You can use this method to deploy OpenShift Container Platform on an internal network that is not visible to the internet.
User-provisioned infrastructure installation of OpenShift Container Platform on vSphere
User-provisioned infrastructure requires the user to provision all resources required by OpenShift Container Platform.
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Installing a cluster on vSphere with user-provisioned infrastructure: You can install OpenShift Container Platform on VMware vSphere infrastructure that you provision.
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Installing a cluster on vSphere with network customizations with user-provisioned infrastructure: You can install OpenShift Container Platform on VMware vSphere infrastructure that you provision with customized network configuration options.
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Installing a cluster on vSphere in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure: OpenShift Container Platform can be installed on VMware vSphere infrastructure that you provision in a restricted network.
VMware vSphere infrastructure requirements
You must install the OpenShift Container Platform cluster on a VMware vSphere version 6 or 7 instance that meets the requirements for the components that you use.
| Component | Minimum supported versions | Description |
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Hypervisor |
vSphere 6.5 and later with HW version 13 |
This version is the minimum version that Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) supports. See the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 supported hypervisors list. |
Storage with in-tree drivers |
vSphere 6.5 and later |
This plugin creates vSphere storage by using the in-tree storage drivers for vSphere included in OpenShift Container Platform. |
Optional: Networking (NSX-T) |
vSphere 6.5U3 or vSphere 6.7U2 and later |
vSphere 6.5U3 or vSphere 6.7U2+ are required for OpenShift Container Platform. VMware’s NSX Container Plugin (NCP) is certified with OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 and NSX-T 3.x+. |
If you use a vSphere version 6.5 instance, consider upgrading to 6.7U3 or 7.0 before you install OpenShift Container Platform.
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You must ensure that the time on your ESXi hosts is synchronized before you install OpenShift Container Platform. See Edit Time Configuration for a Host in the VMware documentation. |
Uninstalling an installer-provisioned infrastructure installation of OpenShift Container Platform on vSphere
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Uninstalling a cluster on vSphere that uses installer-provisioned infrastructure: You can remove a cluster that you deployed on VMware vSphere infrastructure that used installer-provisioned infrastructure.