SSOXMS - Documentation Index
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Reference Architectures and Whitepapers for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE Planning and Sizing Guide
Planning
Deployment options and considerations
LPAR
z/VM
RHEL KVM
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
IBM zCX
Cluster installation options
Supported installation methods
Multi-architecture compute
Infrastructure options
Sizing
Sizing formulas
Sizing for RHOCP clusters
Sizing for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Sizing for service-oriented add-ons
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE Reference Architecture
Executive Summary
About this document
Value proposition
Benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Benefits of running Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE
Target use cases
Planning and architectural overview
Reference architecture high-level design
Typical RHOCP Topologies and Deployments
Integrating RHOCP in the enterprise
Design considerations
Virtualization and hypervisors
Networking
DNS
Storage
Key components of IBM Fusion Data Foundation
Operational considerations
Postinstallation validation
Adding persistent storage with NFS
Adding dynamic persistent storage with NFS
Backup and restore
Security and identities
Adding compute nodes
RHOCP container catalog access for s390x
Infrastructure nodes for boosting performance on RHOCP
Logging and monitoring
Application considerations
Source, binaries, images, and containers
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Web Console
Simple build and deployment procedures
Development best practices
Summary
Appendix
Monitoring and Validating the installation process
Troubleshooting commands
Persistent storage examples
IBM Storage Fusion and IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation Reference Architecture
Executive summary
About this document
Value proposition
Software Defined Storage for multi-architecture hybrid cloud topologies
Introducing IBM Fusion and IBM Fusion Data Foundation
Benefits and value proposition
Use cases
Planning and Architecture
Storage concepts
IBM Fusion
IBM Fusion Data Foundation architecture
Building hybrid storage topologies
Hardware requirements for installation
Using storage in containerized applications
Considerations for business continuity and resilience
Comparing IBM Fusion Data Foundation with other storage solutions
Design considerations
Storage
Networking
Virtualization and hypervisors
Deployment methods and tools
Sizing and planning the hardware infrastructure
Implementing high availability and disaster recovery
Stretching a Red Hat OpenShift cluster across availability zones
Regional disaster recovery
Metro disaster recovery
Using Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
Further consideration for high availability and disaster recovery
Operational considerations
Logging and monitoring
Performance considerations
Encryption
Backup and restore
Considerations for backup and restore
IBM Fusion backup services
Open API for Data Protection (OADP)
Velero, CSI Snapshots, and Restic
Processing a backup with OADP
Restoring an application
Further considerations for backup and restore
Summary
References
IBM Storage Scale for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE
Executive summary
Storage for multi-architecture hybrid cloud topologies
IBM Storage Scale Architecture Overview
Integration with Red Hat OpenShift
Planning Considerations
Installation
Configuration of the IBM Storage Scale storage cluster (on-premise)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Installing the IBM Storage Scale container native operator and cluster
Verifying the IBM Storage Scale container native cluster
Accessing the IBM Storage Scale GUI
Summary
References
Contributors
Cookbooks
Using Local Filesystem with CNSA
Deploying IBM Storage Scale Container Native
Secure Boot
Configure Linux and Storage Scale on IBM Z to support Secure Boot Mode
Introduction to secure boot on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE
Planning, installing and upgrading Storage Scale with secure boot on Linux on IBM Z
KVM Hypervisor
Migration Guide for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE
Pre migration checklist
Migrating x86 to s390x for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Introduction
Assess the existing environment and map it to the target application
Design the network solution
Prepare the IBM Z environment
Configure the network
Direct attachment using a Linux bridge on a second NIC
SSH access using a Load Balancer Service
Attach a ClusterUserDefinedNetwork (CUDN) on a secondary adapter
Install Linux VMs
Install from the golden image with NMState on a second OSA NIC
Install from golden image with SSH access using a Load Balancer Service
Configure the VM
Install and configure the middleware on the target server
Install MongoDB Enterprise Edition
Configure the network services
Additional information
Migrating z/VM to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Prerequisites for z/VM to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization migration
Detaching the disk from the z/VM guest
Creating a DD image from z/VM disk
Converting the disk image to QCOW2 format
Uploading the image to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Modifying the boot configuration for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Deploying the migrated virtual machine
Post-migration tasks
IBM Confidential Computing Containers for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Overview
Setting up and configuring IBM Confidential Computing Containers for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Logging for IBM Confidential Computing Containers for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Syslog
Preparation
Client setup
Server setup
IBM Cloud Logs
Encrypted Multi-Persona Contract
Creating a new contract
Setting up volumes for contracts (Optional)
Setting up storage environment
Creating PersistentVolumeClaims for storage
Creating the workload section of the contract
Additional steps for the cosign contract
Additional steps for the workload sealed secret contract
Configuring volumes in the workload section
Generating contract signing Key pair
Creating the environment section of the contract
Additional steps for the environment sealed secret contract
Configuring volumes in the environment section
Creating a contract signature
Additional steps for attestation encryption contract
Create a boot section
Creating a signed contract
Additional steps for attestation encryption contract
Verifying the contract
Configuring resources for workloads
Monitoring IBM LinuxONE LPAR and Peer Pods
Troubleshooting
Access console logs of the Peerpod VM
Enable debug logs and identify Kata/QEMU processes for Bare Metal
Error messages
Trustee on IBM Confidential Computing Container Runtime for Red Hat Virtualization Solutions
Executive summary
About this document
Deploying Trustee on IBM Confidential Computing Container Runtime for Red Hat Virtualization Solutions
Deploying OpenShift sandboxed containers
Installing OpenShift sandboxed containers
Enabling Confidential Containers on OpenShift sandboxed containers
Creating Confidential Computing contract
Configuring the certificates and keys
Obtaining the attestation policy fields
Creating the resource access policy
Generating the KBS key and certificate
Creating the KbsConfig file
Creating a signed container image
Verifying the kbs directory tree structure
Creating the podman-play file for Trustee
Creating a Contract
Deploying IBM Confidential Computing Container Runtime for Red Hat Virtualization Solutions
Verifying the attestation process
Why RHOCP on IBM Z
Performance
Supported Red Hat products
Blogs
IBM Documentation, IBM Redbooks, IBM Developer, IBM Technology Zone
Kubernetes device plug-in for IBM Crypto Express (CEX) cards - Installation and User Guide
Release Notes
Version 1.0
Version 1.0.2
Version 1.1.0
Inclusive language
Introduction
Setting up the environment for the CEX device plug-in
Getting started with the CEX device plug-in
Installing and Configuring the CEX device plug-in
Allocation of CEX resources by containers
Technical Concepts and Limitations
Limitations
Prometheus Support
Troubleshooting
Migrating from kube-system to cex-device-plugin namespace
Appendix
Additional resources
Notices
Spyre Operator for IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE User's Guide
Release Notes
Version 1.1.0
Version 1.1.1
Version 1.2.0
Version 1.2.1
Version 1.3.0
Introduction to the Spyre Operator
Key components
Hardware and software requirements
Features and benefits
Architecture overview
Prerequisites on Red Hat OpenShift using OperatorHub
Node Feature Discovery (NFD) Operator
cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Attach PCI devices to KVM virtual machines
Attach PCI Cards to z/VM compute nodes
Configure the MachineConfig
Installing the Spyre Operator
Adding a card after deployment
Recovering Spyre cards on worker node after SSA upgrade
Troubleshooting
Security advisory