Amazon Web Services zones for Red Hat OpenShift cluster

To create a Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster, you can select either a public hosted or private hosted zone in Amazon Web Services.

Public hosted zone

For IBM® Maximo® Application Suite installations, if you want to create a new Red Hat OpenShift cluster, you must configure a public hosted zone. A public hosted zone is a container that holds information about how you want to route internet traffic for a specific domain.

When the Maximo Application Suite cluster is created, the public hosted zone is used to allow internet traffic to access the cluster from outside the cluster's virtual private cloud (VPC). For more information, see Working with public hosted zones.

You configure the public hosted zone in the Amazon Route 53 service. Amazon Route 53 is a domain name system (DNS) service that provides domain registration, routing, and health-checking functions. You can register any valid and available domain name. Your Amazon Web Services account has access to the Amazon Route 53 service. For the instructions to create a public hosted zone in Amazon Route 53, see Creating a public hosted zone .

Private hosted zone

For Maximo Application Suite installations, if you want to create a new private Red Hat OpenShift cluster, you must configure a private hosted zone. A private hosted zone is a container that holds information about how you want to route internet traffic for a specific domain.

When the Maximo Application Suite cluster is created, the private hosted zone will not allow internet traffic to access the cluster from outside the cluster's virtual private cloud (VPC) unless accessed from Jumphost, which is present in the same VPC. For more information, see Working with private hosted zones.

You configure the private hosted zone in the Amazon Route 53 service. Amazon Route 53 is a domain name system (DNS) service that provides domain registration, routing, and health-checking functions. You can register any valid and available domain name. Your AWS account has access to the Amazon Route 53 service. For the instructions to create a private hosted zone in Amazon Route 53, see Creating a private hosted zone.