Openshift

Red Hat OpenShift provides lots of different install mechanisms to cater to different use cases. I’ve been using validated patterns extensively for building reference architectures and test systems. One challenge has been how to get repeatable build processes on bare metal. This blog describes how I’ve done this in one our technology labs. Like many organizations the easiest place for me to test at Red Hat is in the cloud. Our demo platform (GitHub) makes it incredibly easy to provision environments. While developing the confidential containers validated pattern I quickly started using (and templating) openshift-installer CLI do ‘IPI’ installs - the installer configures everything it needs to deploy OpenShift clusters to just big enough for what I needed.

Validated patterns for demos # Upon joining Red Hat as a Chief Architect I’ve been lucky enough to find some time to deep-dive into our products and upstream. One of the fun challenges that I faced straight away is our demo OpenShift environments, for many reasons, are emphemeral. In ephemeral environments GitOps is essential to quickly get to a consistent environment. Enter validated patterns.