About this document

Container-based applications provide organizations with a new paradigm for application development and deployment. Kubernetes and containerized applications allow organizations to streamline their DevOps environment and rapidly deploy, develop, and maintain both stateless and stateful applications.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) is Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes distribution. It provides developers, IT organizations, and business leaders with a hybrid cloud application platform for developing and deploying new containerized applications on a secure platform. RHOCP also offers scalable resources that require minimal configuration and management. Developer can create and deploy applications by delivering a consistent environment throughout the lifecycle of the application including development, deployment, and maintenance. The self-service capabilities and minimal maintenance requirements reduce the burden on IT organizations that are associated with deploying and maintaining application platforms.

This document provides an overview of the options available for implementing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE. In addition, this document reviews topologies and configurations and implementation choices with their pros and cons.

The reference architecture represents the best practice for installing and configuring RHOCP on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE. The information that is provided by this document is intended to help organizations deploy RHOCP on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE quickly in a reliable and supported configuration. Important design considerations and key integrations between the products are provided as part of this document. This document should not be considered an implementation guide. Official Red Hat and IBM Documentation exists for all the components that are included within this reference architecture and should be reviewed before deployment.

This document is intended for system integrators, IT architects, system administrators, application developers. It is assumed that the reader has previous experience with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

For more information about Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform see: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/