Installing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Software Hub

IBM Software Hub 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
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Who needs to complete this task?

Cluster administrator The user who will be the primary cluster administrator should install the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

When do you need to complete this task?

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 Software Hub.

If you already have an existing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you can skip this task.

Supported deployment environments

You can deploy IBM Software Hub 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.

Remember: If you use managed OpenShift, ensure that you install a supported version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Restriction: Data Virtualization and Db2 Big SQL are not supported on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Version 4.12. If you plan to install either of these services, you must install Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Version 4.14 or later.
Restriction: Do not install the KubeVirt HyperConverged Cluster Operator from the Community Operator catalog source 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:

You can optionally use hosted control planes.

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.

You can deploy IBM Software Hub 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:

Additional guidance on setting up OpenShift is available in the IBM Cloud Paks documentation.
AWS infrastructure
OpenShift type Deployment options
Managed
ROSA classic
You can use the ROSA CLI to manually install ROSA. For details, see the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) documentation.
ROSA with hosted control planes
You can use the ROSA CLI to manually install ROSA with hosted control planes (ROSA with HCP). For details, see the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) documentation.
AWS GovCloud (US)
You can use the AWS CLI to manually install ROSA on AWS GovCloud (US). For details, see Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS in the AWS GovCloud (US) documentation.
IBM Cloud Satellite
You can use IBM Cloud Satellite in the IBM Cloud marketplace to install Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS.
Self-managed
You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster on AWS infrastructure by following the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:

Additional guidance on setting up OpenShift is available in the IBM Cloud Paks 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.
Multiple availability zone support
You can install IBM Software Hub on an ARO cluster that is deployed across multiple availability zones. However, this configuration is supported only for the following types of storage:
  • Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation
  • IBM Fusion Data Foundation
Best practice: Use the scheduling service to apply pod topology spread constraints to minimize downtime when zone failures occur. For more information, see Minimizing downtime on Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters that are deployed across multiple availability zones.
Self-managed
You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster on Azure infrastructure by following the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:

Additional guidance on setting up OpenShift is available in the IBM Cloud Paks documentation.
Google Cloud infrastructure
OpenShift type Deployment options
Managed You can deploy Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud using a variety of methods. For details, see Installing Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud in the Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated documentation.
Self-managed
You can deploy a self-managed OpenShift cluster on Google Cloud infrastructure by following the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:

Additional guidance on setting up OpenShift is available in the IBM Cloud Paks documentation.

What's next

Now that you've installed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, you're ready to complete Installing the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cert-manager Operator.