Installing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Concert (OCP without CPFS)
IBM® Concert 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?
-
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:
Additional guidance on setting up OpenShift is available in the IBM Cloud Paks 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 for IBM Concert.