Installing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Concert
Concert, Concert Workflows, and Concert Data Apps is deployed on a Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform cluster. If you don't have an existing cluster, complete the appropriate steps to install Red Hat OpenShift on your environment.
- Installation phase
Preparing your cluster
Obtaining your IBM entitlement API key- Installing the Open Shift CLI
- Preparing to run installs from a private container registry
- Creating an image pull secret
- Installing IBM® Concert
- Who needs to complete this task?
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Cluster administrator The user who is the primary cluster administrator should install the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
- When to complete this task
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One-time setup If you don't have an existing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you must complete this task before you can install IBM® Concert.
If you already have an existing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you can skip this task.
Supported deployment environments
You can deploy Concert on-premises or on the cloud. Your deployment environment determines how you can install Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform:
| Deployment environment | Managed OpenShift | Self-managed OpenShift |
|---|---|---|
| On-premises | ✓ | ✓ |
| IBM® Cloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft™ Azure | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Cloud | ✓ |
The following sections include additional guidance about how to install managed and self-managed OpenShift on each deployment environment.
- If you are installing OpenPages® or watsonx.governance Risk and Compliance Foundation, do not install the OpenShift Virtualization Operator on the cluster.
- Do not install the KubeVirt HyperConverged Cluster Operator on the cluster.
On-premises infrastructure
| OpenShift type | Deployment options |
|---|---|
| Managed | You can deploy a managed OpenShift cluster on your on-premises infrastructure with IBM Cloud Satellite™. For details, see IBM Cloud Satellite in the IBM Cloud marketplace. |
| Self-managed | You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster on your on-premises infrastructure by following the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation: |
IBM Cloud infrastructure
| OpenShift type | Deployment options |
|---|---|
| Managed | You can deploy a managed OpenShift cluster
on IBM Cloud infrastructure from the IBM Cloud catalog. For details, see Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud® in the IBM Cloud catalog. Ensure that you select a supported version of Red Hat OpenShift.Red Hat OpenShift. You can deploy Concert on Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) infrastructure. You can use either a single-zone or multi-zone deployment. |
| Self-managed | You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster on Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IBM Cloud infrastructure by following the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation: |
AWS infrastructure
| OpenShift type | Deployment options |
|---|---|
| Managed |
|
| Self-managed |
You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster
on AWS infrastructure by following the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:
|
Azure infrastructure
| OpenShift type | Deployment options |
|---|---|
| Managed |
You can use the
az aro CLI to manually install Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4 (ARO). For details, see the Azure Red Hat OpenShift
4 documentation. |
| Self-managed |
You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster
on Azure infrastructure by following the
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:
|
Google Cloud infrastructure
| OpenShift type | Deployment options |
|---|---|
| Managed | Managed OpenShift on Google Cloud infrastructure is not supported. |
| Self-managed |
You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster on Google Cloud infrastructure by following the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:
|
What's next
Now that you installed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, you're ready to complete Installing persistent storage.