OpenShift Cluster Manager with OpenShift Container Platform

You can use the OpenShift Cluster Manager user interface to create OpenShift Container Platform clusters and subscribe the clusters to Red Hat for support.

OpenShift Cluster Manager provides the installer and instructions to create self-managed clusters on each supported environment for OpenShift Container Platform. You can then view and manage your OpenShift Container Platform clusters in OpenShift Cluster Manager, or log in to the OpenShift Container Platform web console to access and configure your clusters.

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You cannot log in to your Red Hat account with your email unless your email is your Red Hat login.

You can find information about the latest OpenShift Container Platform release versions available, as well as update channels for your clusters from the Releases menu in OpenShift Cluster Manager. For insights about your clusters, use the integrated services within the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console such as Red Hat Lightspeed advisor, Subscriptions, and Cost Management.

OpenShift Cluster Manager with OpenShift Dedicated
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You can use the OpenShift Cluster Manager user interface to create, view, and manage your OpenShift Dedicated clusters.

OpenShift Dedicated clusters are managed by Red Hat and are known as managed clusters. You can create OpenShift Dedicated clusters on AWS or Google Cloud Platform, using either the Red Hat managed cloud account or your own cloud provider account. When you use your own cloud provider account, this billing model is referred to as Customer Cloud Subscription (CCS) in OpenShift Cluster Manager.

OpenShift Cluster Manager with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
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Use OpenShift Cluster Manager to create, view, and manage Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS clusters. ROSA is a fully-managed OpenShift service supported by Red Hat and AWS, billed to your AWS account.

You can quickly deploy ROSA from OpenShift Cluster Manager or using the ROSA CLI. In OpenShift Cluster Manager, you can manage your ROSA cluster and any add-on services. ROSA pricing is consumption based and is billed directly to your AWS account.

OpenShift Cluster Manager and the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console
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OpenShift Cluster Manager is integrated with the following services hosted on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, which you can use to gain deeper understanding and manage your OpenShift Container Platform clusters. Each service is linked in Additional resources.

  • Red Hat Lightspeed advisor for OpenShift Container Platform monitors the health of your OpenShift Container Platform clusters and helps you identify, prioritize, and resolve risks to service availability, fault tolerance, performance, and security.
  • Subscriptions is a service that you can use to monitor your usage and subscription information for your OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
  • Cost management aggregates and displays the costs of your OpenShift Container Platform deployment and infrastructure across bare-metal servers, virtual machines, and private clouds. This includes public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

You need a Red Hat account to access OpenShift Cluster Manager and the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. You can then deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster in OpenShift Cluster Manager.

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You cannot log in to your Red Hat account with your email unless your email is your Red Hat login. For more information, see Additional resources.

For greater security, you can use two-factor authentication (2FA) to access OpenShift Cluster Manager and the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. You must enable 2FA in your Red Hat account to use 2FA to access OpenShift Cluster Manager. Organization Administrators can enable 2FA for all users in their organization, or individual users can configure 2FA for their own Red Hat account.

To enable 2FA in your Red Hat account or learn more, see the Using Two-Factor Authentication guide, linked in Additional resources.