Installing the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Command line Interface

With the OpenShift command-line interface (CLI), the oc command, you can create applications and manage Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform projects from a terminal. For more information about OpenShift CLI see this doc

Procedure

  1. Access the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Web Console.
  2. Click Help and select Command Line Tools.
  3. Click the appropriate link to download the oc binary that matches with your Operational System and follow its installation instructions specific to the Operational System of your client machine to be able to run oc commands from a Terminal.

Results

You can now execute oc commands directly from a Terminal on your machine.

What to do next

You can access your Red Hat OpenShift cluster by using the oc command directly from a Terminal in the client machine oc was installed to. In order to do that, first you go in the Red Hat OpenShift web console , then click your Login name and select Copy login command. Then, click View token. Copy the entire command line under the Log in with this token section, paste in the Terminal of the client machine where oc was installed to and run the command. You should see a message saying that you can access a number of projects and a default project selected. From now on, next time you run oc commands in this opened Terminal in the client machine, it will be running the oc commands in your Red Hat OpenShift cluster.