Summary

With Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP), organizations have access to a comprehensive and prescriptive experience for their Kubernetes based container infrastructure. This document helps to ensure that your solution meets best-practices and recommendations. The Red Hat Quality Engineering teams (QE) tested and validated the considerations that are described in this document. This helps ensure organizations who are seeking to operationalize this reference architecture quickly can be assured that all options represented are both fully tested as well as fully supported by Red Hat.

Planning and architectural overview provides a solid understanding of the overarching concepts and architectural principles of RHOCP. This is the essential context technical leadership needs to guide real-life implementation projects toward a successful solution.

Design considerations discusses the key design considerations. Enabling the technical team to make the correct decisions on networking, storage, and installation options based on a solid understanding of the RHOCP concepts. This also helps to avoid mistakes, which need cumbersome mitigation in later stages of a project.

Operational considerations focuses on aspects of "Day 2" operations like security, persistence, backup, and performance tuning. Enabling you to become productive quickly and make your solution reliable and secure right from the beginning.

Application considerations outlines the actual development process. Currently, your actual application workload moves on your prepared container infrastructure to deliver the actual value. This section shows how you can build CI/CD pipelines for an agile and efficient DevOps implementation.

As RHOCP evolves in the future and provides new capabilities, this document will be updated regularly to include the latest best practices and consideration.

With the information provided in this document you are encouraged to proceed with your RHOCP based project and deliver successful solutions to your customers.