- Documentation
- OKD
- About
- Learn more about OpenShift Container Platform
- About
- What's new?
- Architecture
- Disconnected environments
- About disconnected environments
- Converting a connected cluster to a disconnected cluster
- Mirroring in disconnected environments
- About disconnected installation mirroring
- Creating a mirror registry with mirror registry for Red Hat OpenShift
- Mirroring images for a disconnected installation by using the oc adm command
- Mirroring images for a disconnected installation using the oc-mirror plugin v1
- Mirroring images for a disconnected installation using oc-mirror plugin v2
- Migrating from oc-mirror plugin v1 to v2
- Installing a cluster in a disconnected environment
- Using OLM in disconnected environments
- Updating a cluster in a disconnected environment
- Installing
- Installation overview
- Installing on Alibaba Cloud
- Installing on AWS
- Installation methods
- Configuring an AWS account
- Installer-provisioned infrastructure
- Preparing to install a cluster
- Installing a cluster
- Installing a cluster with customizations
- Installing a cluster with network customizations
- Installing a cluster in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster into an existing VPC
- Installing a private cluster
- Installing a cluster into a government region
- Installing a cluster into a Secret or Top Secret Region
- Installing a cluster into a China region
- Installing a cluster with compute nodes on Local Zones
- Installing a cluster with compute nodes on Wavelength Zones
- Extending an AWS VPC cluster into an AWS Outpost
- Installing an AWS cluster with the support for configuring multi-architecture compute machines
- User-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a three-node cluster
- Uninstalling a cluster
- Installation configuration parameters
- Installing on Azure
- Installation methods
- Configuring an Azure account
- Installer-provisioned infrastructure
- Preparing to install a cluster
- Installing a cluster
- Installing a cluster with customizations
- Installing a cluster with network customizations
- Installing a cluster in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster into an existing VNet
- Installing a private cluster
- Installing a cluster into a government region
- User-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a three-node cluster
- Uninstalling a cluster
- Installation configuration parameters for Azure
- Installing on Azure Stack Hub
- Installing on GCP
- Preparing to install on GCP
- Configuring a GCP project
- Installing a cluster quickly on GCP
- Installing a cluster on GCP with customizations
- Installing a cluster on GCP with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on GCP in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on GCP into an existing VPC
- Installing a cluster on GCP into a shared VPC
- Installing a private cluster on GCP
- Installing a cluster on GCP using Deployment Manager templates
- Installing a cluster into a shared VPC on GCP using Deployment Manager templates
- Installing a cluster on GCP in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a three-node cluster on GCP
- Installation configuration parameters for GCP
- Uninstalling a cluster on GCP
- Installing a GCP cluster with the support for configuring multi-architecture compute machines
- Installing on IBM Cloud
- Preparing to install on IBM Cloud
- Configuring an IBM Cloud account
- Configuring IAM for IBM Cloud
- User-managed encryption
- Installing a cluster on IBM Cloud with customizations
- Installing a cluster on IBM Cloud with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on IBM Cloud into an existing VPC
- Installing a private cluster on IBM Cloud
- Installing a cluster on IBM Cloud in a restricted network
- Installation configuration parameters for IBM Cloud
- Uninstalling a cluster on IBM Cloud
- Installing on Nutanix
- Installing on a single node
- Installing on bare metal
- Preparing to install on bare metal
- Installing a user-provisioned cluster on bare metal
- Installing a user-provisioned bare metal cluster with network customizations
- Installing a user-provisioned bare metal cluster on a restricted network
- Scaling a user-provisioned installation with the bare metal operator
- Installation configuration parameters for bare metal
- Deploying installer-provisioned clusters on bare metal
- Installing on IBM Cloud (Classic)
- Installing on OpenStack
- Preparing to install on OpenStack
- Preparing to install a cluster that uses SR-IOV or OVS-DPDK on OpenStack
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with customizations
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack on your own infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack in a restricted network
- Installing a three-node cluster on OpenStack
- Configuring network settings after installing OpenStack
- OpenStack Cloud Controller Manager reference guide
- Deploying on OpenStack with rootVolume and etcd on local disk
- Uninstalling a cluster on OpenStack
- Uninstalling a cluster on OpenStack from your own infrastructure
- Installation configuration parameters for OpenStack
- Installing on OCI
- Installing on VMware vSphere
- Installation methods
- Installer-provisioned infrastructure
- User-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a three-node cluster
- Uninstalling a cluster
- Using the vSphere Problem Detector Operator
- Installation configuration parameters
- Regions and zones for a VMware vCenter
- Enabling encryption on a vSphere cluster
- Configuring the vSphere connection settings after an installation
- Installing on any platform
- Installation configuration
- Validation and troubleshooting
- Postinstallation configuration
- Configuring a private cluster
- Cluster tasks
- Node tasks
- Postinstallation network configuration
- Configuring image streams and image registries
- Storage configuration
- Preparing for users
- Changing the cloud provider credentials configuration
- Configuring alert notifications
- Converting a connected cluster to a disconnected cluster
- Updating clusters
- Updating clusters overview
- Understanding OpenShift updates
- Preparing to update a cluster
- Performing a cluster update
- Updating a cluster using the CLI
- Updating a cluster using the web console
- Performing a canary rollout update
- Updating a cluster in a disconnected environment
- Updating hardware on nodes running on vSphere
- Migrating to a cluster with multi-architecture compute machines
- Updating the boot loader on Fedora CoreOS nodes using bootupd
- Troubleshooting a cluster update
- Support
- Support overview
- Managing your cluster resources
- Getting support
- Remote health monitoring with connected clusters
- About remote health monitoring
- Showing data collected by remote health monitoring
- Opting out of remote health reporting
- Enabling remote health reporting
- Using Insights to identify issues with your cluster
- Using the Insights Operator
- Using remote health reporting in a restricted network
- Importing simple content access entitlements with Insights Operator
- Gathering data about your cluster
- Summarizing cluster specifications
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting installations
- Verifying node health
- Troubleshooting CRI-O container runtime issues
- Troubleshooting operating system issues
- Troubleshooting network issues
- Troubleshooting Operator issues
- Investigating pod issues
- Troubleshooting the Source-to-Image process
- Troubleshooting storage issues
- Troubleshooting Windows container workload issues
- Investigating monitoring issues
- Diagnosing OpenShift CLI (oc) issues
- Web console
- Web console overview
- Accessing the web console
- Using the OpenShift Container Platform dashboard to get cluster information
- Adding user preferences
- Configuring the web console
- Customizing the web console
- Dynamic plugins
- Disabling the web console
- Creating quick start tutorials
- Optional capabilities and products
- CLI tools
- Security and compliance
- Security and compliance overview
- Container security
- Understanding container security
- Understanding host and VM security
- Container image signatures
- Hardening Fedora CoreOS
- Understanding compliance
- Securing container content
- Using container registries securely
- Securing the build process
- Deploying containers
- Securing the container platform
- Securing networks
- Securing attached storage
- Monitoring cluster events and logs
- Configuring certificates
- Certificate types and descriptions
- User-provided certificates for the API server
- Proxy certificates
- Service CA certificates
- Node certificates
- Bootstrap certificates
- etcd certificates
- OLM certificates
- Aggregated API client certificates
- Machine Config Operator certificates
- User-provided certificates for default ingress
- Ingress certificates
- Monitoring and cluster logging Operator component certificates
- Control plane certificates
- Compliance Operator
- File Integrity Operator
- File Integrity Operator Overview
- File Integrity Operator release notes
- File Integrity Operator support
- Installing the File Integrity Operator
- Updating the File Integrity Operator
- Understanding the File Integrity Operator
- Configuring the File Integrity Operator
- Performing advanced File Integrity Operator tasks
- Troubleshooting the File Integrity Operator
- Uninstalling the File Integrity Operator
- Security Profiles Operator
- Security Profiles Operator overview
- Security Profiles Operator release notes
- Security Profiles Operator support
- Understanding the Security Profiles Operator
- Enabling the Security Profiles Operator
- Managing seccomp profiles
- Managing SELinux profiles
- Advanced Security Profiles Operator tasks
- Troubleshooting the Security Profiles Operator
- Uninstalling the Security Profiles Operator
- Viewing audit logs
- Configuring the audit log policy
- Configuring TLS security profiles
- Configuring seccomp profiles
- Allowing JavaScript-based access to the API server from additional hosts
- Encrypting etcd data
- Scanning pods for vulnerabilities
- Network-Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE)
- Authentication and authorization
- Authentication and authorization overview
- Understanding authentication
- Configuring the internal OAuth server
- Configuring OAuth clients
- Managing user-owned OAuth access tokens
- Understanding identity provider configuration
- Configuring identity providers
- Configuring an htpasswd identity provider
- Configuring a Keystone identity provider
- Configuring an LDAP identity provider
- Configuring a basic authentication identity provider
- Configuring a request header identity provider
- Configuring a GitHub or GitHub Enterprise identity provider
- Configuring a GitLab identity provider
- Configuring a Google identity provider
- Configuring an OpenID Connect identity provider
- Using RBAC to define and apply permissions
- Removing the kubeadmin user
- Understanding and creating service accounts
- Using service accounts in applications
- Using a service account as an OAuth client
- Scoping tokens
- Using bound service account tokens
- Managing security context constraints
- Understanding and managing pod security admission
- Impersonating the system:admin user
- Syncing LDAP groups
- Managing cloud provider credentials
- Networking
- About networking
- Understanding networking
- Accessing hosts
- Networking dashboards
- Networking Operators
- Kubernetes NMState Operator
- AWS Load Balancer Operator
- eBPF manager Operator
- External DNS Operator
- External DNS Operator release notes
- Understanding the External DNS Operator
- Installing the External DNS Operator
- External DNS Operator configuration parameters
- Creating DNS records on AWS
- Creating DNS records on Azure
- Creating DNS records on GCP
- Creating DNS records on Infoblox
- Configuring the cluster-wide proxy on the External DNS Operator
- MetalLB Operator
- Cluster Network Operator in OpenShift Container Platform
- DNS Operator in OpenShift Container Platform
- Ingress Operator in OpenShift Container Platform
- Ingress Node Firewall Operator in OpenShift Container Platform
- SR-IOV Operator
- Network security
- Configuring the Ingress Controller for manual DNS management
- Verifying connectivity to an endpoint
- Changing the cluster network MTU
- Configuring the node port service range
- Configuring the cluster network IP address range
- Configuring IP failover
- Configuring system controls and interface attributes using the tuning plugin
- Using Stream Control Transmission Protocol
- Using Precision Time Protocol hardware
- CIDR range definitions
- Multiple networks
- Understanding multiple networks
- Primary networks
- Secondary networks
- Creating secondary networks on OVN-Kubernetes
- Creating secondary networks with other CNI plugins
- Attaching a pod to an additional network
- Configuring multi-network policies
- Removing a pod from an additional network
- Editing an additional network
- Configuring IP address assignment for secondary networks
- Configuring the master interface in the container network namespace
- Removing an additional network
- About virtual routing and forwarding
- Assigning a secondary network to a VRF
- Hardware networks
- About Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) hardware networks
- Configuring an SR-IOV network device
- Configuring an SR-IOV Ethernet network attachment
- Configuring an SR-IOV InfiniBand network attachment
- Configuring interface-level network sysctl settings and all-multicast mode for SR-IOV networks
- Configuring QinQ support for SR-IOV networks
- Using high performance multicast
- Using DPDK and RDMA
- Using pod-level bonding for secondary networks
- Configuring hardware offloading
- Switching Bluefield-2 from NIC to DPU mode
- OVN-Kubernetes network plugin
- About the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin
- OVN-Kubernetes architecture
- OVN-Kubernetes troubleshooting
- OVN-Kubernetes traffic tracing
- Converting to IPv4/IPv6 dual stack networking
- Configuring internal subnets
- Configuring gateway mode
- Configure an external gateway on the default network
- Configuring an egress IP address
- Assigning an egress IP address
- Configuring an egress service
- Considerations for the use of an egress router pod
- Deploying an egress router pod in redirect mode
- Enabling multicast for a project
- Disabling multicast for a project
- Tracking network flows
- Configuring hybrid networking
- Configuring Routes
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic
- Overview
- Configuring ExternalIPs for services
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using an Ingress Controller
- Configuring the Ingress Controller endpoint publishing strategy
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a load balancer
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic on AWS
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a service external IP
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a NodePort
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using load balancer allowed source ranges
- Patching existing ingress objects
- Kubernetes NMState
- Configuring the cluster-wide proxy
- Configuring a custom PKI
- Load balancing on OpenStack
- Load balancing with MetalLB
- Configuring MetalLB address pools
- Advertising the IP address pools
- Configuring MetalLB BGP peers
- Advertising an IP address pool using the community alias
- Configuring MetalLB BFD profiles
- Configuring services to use MetalLB
- Managing symmetric routing with MetalLB
- Configuring the integration of MetalLB and FRR-K8s
- MetalLB logging, troubleshooting, and support
- Associating secondary interfaces metrics to network attachments
- Storage
- Storage overview
- Understanding ephemeral storage
- Understanding persistent storage
- Configuring persistent storage
- Persistent storage using AWS Elastic Block Store
- Persistent storage using Azure Disk
- Persistent storage using Azure File
- Persistent storage using Cinder
- Persistent storage using Fibre Channel
- Persistent storage using FlexVolume
- Persistent storage using GCE Persistent Disk
- Persistent Storage using iSCSI
- Persistent storage using NFS
- Persistent storage using Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation
- Persistent storage using VMware vSphere
- Persistent storage using local storage
- Using Container Storage Interface (CSI)
- Configuring CSI volumes
- CSI inline ephemeral volumes
- Shared Resource CSI Driver Operator
- CSI volume snapshots
- CSI volume cloning
- Managing the default storage class
- CSI automatic migration
- AWS Elastic Block Store CSI Driver Operator
- AWS Elastic File Service CSI Driver Operator
- Azure Disk CSI Driver Operator
- Azure File CSI Driver Operator
- Azure Stack Hub CSI Driver Operator
- GCP PD CSI Driver Operator
- GCP Filestore CSI Driver Operator
- IBM Cloud Block Storage (VPC) CSI Driver Operator
- IBM Power Virtual Server Block Storage CSI Driver Operator
- OpenStack Cinder CSI Driver Operator
- OpenStack Manila CSI Driver Operator
- Secrets Store CSI Driver Operator
- CIFS/SMB CSI Driver Operator
- VMware vSphere CSI Driver Operator
- Generic ephemeral volumes
- Expanding persistent volumes
- Dynamic provisioning
- Detach volumes after non-graceful node shutdown
- Registry
- Registry overview
- Image Registry Operator in OKD
- Setting up and configuring the registry
- Configuring the registry for AWS user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for GCP user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for OpenStack user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for Azure user-provisioned infrastructure
- Configuring the registry for OpenStack
- Configuring the registry for bare metal
- Configuring the registry for vSphere
- Configuring the registry for OpenShift Data Foundation
- Configuring the registry for Nutanix
- Accessing the registry
- Exposing the registry
- Operators
- Operators overview
- Understanding Operators
- User tasks
- Administrator tasks
- Adding Operators to a cluster
- Updating installed Operators
- Deleting Operators from a cluster
- Configuring OLM features
- Configuring proxy support
- Viewing Operator status
- Managing Operator conditions
- Allowing non-cluster administrators to install Operators
- Managing custom catalogs
- Using OLM in disconnected environments
- Catalog source pod scheduling
- Troubleshooting Operator issues
- Developing Operators
- About the Operator SDK
- Installing the Operator SDK CLI
- Go-based Operators
- Ansible-based Operators
- Helm-based Operators
- Java-based Operators
- Defining cluster service versions (CSVs)
- Working with bundle images
- Complying with pod security admission
- Token authentication
- Validating Operators using the scorecard
- Validating Operator bundles
- High-availability or single-node cluster detection and support
- Configuring built-in monitoring with Prometheus
- Configuring leader election
- Configuring support for multiple platforms
- Object pruning utility
- Migrating package manifest projects to bundle format
- Operator SDK CLI reference
- Migrating to Operator SDK v0.1.0
- Cluster Operators reference
- OLM v1 (Technology Preview)
- Extensions
- CI/CD
- CI/CD overview
- Builds using BuildConfig
- Understanding image builds
- Understanding build configurations
- Creating build inputs
- Managing build output
- Using build strategies
- Custom image builds with Buildah
- Performing and configuring basic builds
- Triggering and modifying builds
- Performing advanced builds
- Using Red Hat subscriptions in builds
- Securing builds by strategy
- Build configuration resources
- Troubleshooting builds
- Setting up additional trusted certificate authorities for builds
- Images
- Overview of images
- Configuring the Cluster Samples Operator
- Using the Cluster Samples Operator with an alternate registry
- Creating images
- Managing images
- Managing image streams
- Using image streams with Kubernetes resources
- Triggering updates on image stream changes
- Image configuration resources
- Using images
- Building applications
- Building applications overview
- Projects
- Creating applications
- Viewing application composition by using the Topology view
- Exporting applications
- Working with Helm charts
- Deployments
- Quotas
- Using config maps with applications
- Monitoring project and application metrics using the Developer perspective
- Monitoring application health
- Editing applications
- Pruning objects to reclaim resources
- Idling applications
- Deleting applications
- Using the Red Hat Marketplace
- Machine configuration
- Machine configuration overview
- Using machine config objects to configure nodes
- Using node disruption policies to minimize disruption from machine config changes
- Configuring MCO-related custom resources
- Updated boot images
- Managing unused rendered machine configs
- Fedora CoreOS image layering
- Machine Config Daemon metrics
- Machine management
- Overview of machine management
- Managing compute machines with the Machine API
- Creating a compute machine set on AWS
- Creating a compute machine set on Azure
- Creating a compute machine set on Azure Stack Hub
- Creating a compute machine set on GCP
- Creating a compute machine set on IBM Cloud
- Creating a compute machine set on IBM Power Virtual Server
- Creating a compute machine set on Nutanix
- Creating a compute machine set on OpenStack
- Creating a compute machine set on vSphere
- Creating a compute machine set on bare metal
- Manually scaling a compute machine set
- Modifying a compute machine set
- Machine phases and lifecycle
- Deleting a machine
- Applying autoscaling to a cluster
- Creating infrastructure machine sets
- Managing user-provisioned infrastructure manually
- Managing control plane machines
- About control plane machine sets
- Getting started with control plane machine sets
- Managing control plane machines with control plane machine sets
- Control plane machine set configuration
- Configuration options for control plane machines
- Control plane configuration options for Amazon Web Services
- Control plane configuration options for Microsoft Azure
- Control plane configuration options for Google Cloud Platform
- Control plane configuration options for Nutanix
- Control plane configuration options for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Control plane configuration options for VMware vSphere
- Control plane resiliency and recovery
- Troubleshooting the control plane machine set
- Disabling the control plane machine set
- Managing machines with the Cluster API
- Deploying machine health checks
- Hosted control planes
- Hosted control planes release notes
- Hosted control planes overview
- Preparing to deploy hosted control planes
- Deploying hosted control planes
- Managing hosted control planes
- Deploying hosted control planes in a disconnected environment
- Introduction to hosted control planes in a disconnected environment
- Deploying hosted control planes on OpenShift Virtualization in a disconnected environment
- Deploying hosted control planes on bare metal in a disconnected environment
- Deploying hosted control planes on IBM Z in a disconnected environment
- Monitoring user workload in a disconnected environment
- Updating hosted control planes
- High availability for hosted control planes
- About high availability for hosted control planes
- Recovering a failing etcd cluster
- Backing up and restoring etcd in an on-premise environment
- Backing up and restoring etcd on AWS
- Backing up and restoring a hosted cluster on OpenShift Virtualization
- Disaster recovery for a hosted cluster in AWS
- Disaster recovery for a hosted cluster by using OADP
- Authentication and authorization for hosted control planes
- Handling machine configuration for hosted control planes
- Using feature gates in a hosted cluster
- Observability for hosted control planes
- Troubleshooting hosted control planes
- Destroying a hosted cluster
- Manually importing a hosted cluster
- Nodes
- Overview of nodes
- Working with pods
- About pods
- Viewing pods
- Configuring a cluster for pods
- Automatically scaling pods with the horizontal pod autoscaler
- Automatically adjust pod resource levels with the vertical pod autoscaler
- Providing sensitive data to pods by using secrets
- Providing sensitive data to pods by using an external secrets store
- Authenticating pods with short-term credentials
- Creating and using config maps
- Using Device Manager to make devices available to nodes
- Including pod priority in pod scheduling decisions
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Running pods in Linux user namespaces
- Automatically scaling pods with the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator
- Release notes
- Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator overview
- Installing the custom metrics autoscaler
- Understanding the custom metrics autoscaler triggers
- Understanding custom metrics autoscaler trigger authentications
- Pausing the custom metrics autoscaler
- Gathering audit logs
- Gathering debugging data
- Viewing Operator metrics
- Understanding how to add custom metrics autoscalers
- Removing the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator
- Controlling pod placement onto nodes (scheduling)
- About pod placement using the scheduler
- Scheduling pods using a scheduler profile
- Placing pods relative to other pods using pod affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Controlling pod placement on nodes using node affinity rules
- Placing pods onto overcommited nodes
- Controlling pod placement using node taints
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Controlling pod placement using pod topology spread constraints
- Using jobs and daemon sets
- Working with nodes
- Viewing and listing the nodes in your cluster
- Working with nodes
- Managing nodes
- Adding worker nodes to an on-premise cluster
- Managing the maximum number of pods per node
- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Remediating, fencing, and maintaining nodes
- Understanding node rebooting
- Freeing node resources using garbage collection
- Allocating resources for nodes
- Allocating specific CPUs for nodes in a cluster
- Enabling TLS security profiles for the kubelet
- Creating infrastructure nodes
- Working with containers
- Understanding containers
- Using Init Containers to perform tasks before a pod is deployed
- Using volumes to persist container data
- Mapping volumes using projected volumes
- Allowing containers to consume API objects
- Copying files to or from a container
- Executing remote commands in a container
- Using port forwarding to access applications in a container
- Using sysctls in containers
- Accessing faster builds with /dev/fuse
- Working with clusters
- Viewing system event information in a cluster
- Analyzing cluster resource levels
- Setting limit ranges
- Configuring cluster memory to meet container memory and risk requirements
- Configuring the Linux cgroup version on your nodes
- Enabling features using FeatureGates
- Improving cluster stability in high latency environments using worker latency profiles
- Node metrics dashboard
- Manage secure signatures with sigstore
- Windows Container Support for OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers overview
- Release notes
- Understanding Windows container workloads
- Enabling Windows container workloads
- Creating Windows machine sets
- Scheduling Windows container workloads
- Windows node upgrades
- Using Bring-Your-Own-Host Windows instances as nodes
- Removing Windows nodes
- Disabling Windows container workloads
- Observability
- Observability overview
- Cluster Observability Operator
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Network Observability
- Network Observability release notes
- Network Observability overview
- Installing the Network Observability Operator
- Understanding Network Observability Operator
- Configuring the Network Observability Operator
- Network Policy
- Observing the network traffic
- Using metrics with dashboards and alerts
- Monitoring the Network Observability Operator
- Scheduling resources
- Secondary networks
- Network Observability CLI
- FlowCollector API reference
- FlowMetric API reference
- Flows format reference
- Troubleshooting Network Observability
- Power Monitoring
- Scalability and performance
- Scalability and performance overview
- Recommended performance and scalability practices
- Reference design specifications
- Planning your environment according to object maximums
- Compute Resource Quotas
- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Using CPU Manager and Topology Manager
- Scheduling NUMA-aware workloads
- Scalability and performance optimization
- Managing bare metal hosts
- What huge pages do and how they are consumed by apps
- Understanding low latency
- Tuning nodes for low latency with the performance profile
- Provisioning real-time and low latency workloads
- Debugging low latency tuning
- Performing latency tests for platform verification
- Improving cluster stability in high latency environments using worker latency profiles
- Workload partitioning
- Using the Node Observability Operator
- Edge computing
- Challenges of the network far edge
- Preparing the hub cluster for ZTP
- Updating GitOps ZTP
- Installing managed clusters with RHACM and SiteConfig resources
- Manually installing a single-node OpenShift cluster with GitOps ZTP
- Recommended single-node OpenShift cluster configuration for vDU application workloads
- Validating cluster tuning for vDU application workloads
- Advanced managed cluster configuration with SiteConfig resources
- Managing cluster policies with PolicyGenerator resources
- Managing cluster policies with PolicyGenTemplate resources
- Using hub templates in PolicyGenerator or PolicyGenTemplate CRs
- Updating managed clusters with the Topology Aware Lifecycle Manager
- Expanding single-node OpenShift clusters with GitOps ZTP
- Pre-caching images for single-node OpenShift deployments
- Image-based upgrade for single-node OpenShift clusters
- Understanding the image-based upgrade for single-node OpenShift clusters
- Preparing for an image-based upgrade for single-node OpenShift clusters
- Configuring a shared container partition for the image-based upgrade
- Installing Operators for the image-based upgrade
- Generating a seed image for the image-based upgrade with the Lifecycle Agent
- Creating ConfigMap objects for the image-based upgrade with the Lifecycle Agent
- Creating ConfigMap objects for the image-based upgrade with Lifecycle Agent using GitOps ZTP
- Configuring the automatic image cleanup of the container storage disk
- Performing an image-based upgrade for single-node OpenShift clusters with the Lifecycle Agent
- Performing an image-based upgrade for single-node OpenShift clusters using GitOps ZTP
- Image-based installation for single-node OpenShift
- Day 2 operations for telco core CNF clusters
- Specialized hardware and driver enablement
- Hardware accelerators
- Backup and restore
- Overview of backup and restore operations
- Shutting down a cluster gracefully
- Restarting a cluster gracefully
- OADP Application backup and restore
- Introduction to OpenShift API for Data Protection
- OADP release notes
- OADP performance
- OADP features and plugins
- OADP use cases
- Installing and configuring OADP
- About installing OADP
- Installing the OADP Operator
- Configuring OADP with AWS S3 compatible storage
- Configuring OADP with IBM Cloud
- Configuring OADP with Azure
- Configuring OADP with GCP
- Configuring OADP with MCG
- Configuring OADP with ODF
- Configuring OADP with OpenShift Virtualization
- Configuring OADP with multiple backup storage locations
- Configuring OADP with multiple Volume Snapshot Locations
- Uninstalling OADP
- OADP backing up
- OADP restoring
- OADP and ROSA
- OADP and AWS STS
- OADP and 3scale
- OADP Data Mover
- OADP API
- Advanced OADP features and functionalities
- Troubleshooting OADP
- Velero CLI tool
- Pods crash or restart due to lack of memory or CPU
- Issues with Velero and admission webhooks
- OADP installation issues
- OADP Operator issues
- OADP timeouts
- Backup and Restore CR issues
- Restic issues
- Using the must-gather tool
- OADP monitoring
- Control plane backup and restore
- Migrating from version 3 to 4
- Migrating from version 3 to 4 overview
- About migrating from OKD 3 to 4
- Differences between OKD 3 and 4
- Network considerations
- About MTC
- Installing MTC
- Installing MTC in a restricted network environment
- Upgrading MTC
- Premigration checklists
- Migrating your applications
- Advanced migration options
- Troubleshooting
- Migration Toolkit for Containers
- API reference
- API overview
- Common object reference
- Authorization APIs
- About Authorization APIs
- LocalResourceAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- LocalSubjectAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- ResourceAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectRulesReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SubjectAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SubjectRulesReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectReview [authentication.k8s.io/v1]
- TokenRequest [authentication.k8s.io/v1]
- TokenReview [authentication.k8s.io/v1]
- LocalSubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectRulesReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- Autoscale APIs
- Cluster APIs
- Config APIs
- About Config APIs
- APIServer [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Authentication [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Build [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterOperator [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterVersion [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Console [config.openshift.io/v1]
- DNS [config.openshift.io/v1]
- FeatureGate [config.openshift.io/v1]
- HelmChartRepository [helm.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Image [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageDigestMirrorSet [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageContentPolicy [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageTagMirrorSet [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Infrastructure [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Node [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OAuth [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Project [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ProjectHelmChartRepository [helm.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Proxy [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Scheduler [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Console APIs
- About Console APIs
- ConsoleCLIDownload [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleExternalLogLink [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleLink [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleNotification [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsolePlugin [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleQuickStart [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleSample [console.openshift.io/v1]
- ConsoleYAMLSample [console.openshift.io/v1]
- Extension APIs
- About Extension APIs
- APIService [apiregistration.k8s.io/v1]
- CustomResourceDefinition [apiextensions.k8s.io/v1]
- MutatingWebhookConfiguration [admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1]
- ValidatingAdmissionPolicy [admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1]
- ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding [admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1]
- ValidatingWebhookConfiguration [admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1]
- Image APIs
- About Image APIs
- Image [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageSignature [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamImage [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamImport [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamLayers [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamMapping [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStream [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- SecretList [image.openshift.io/v1]
- Machine APIs
- About Machine APIs
- ContainerRuntimeConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- ControllerConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- ControlPlaneMachineSet [machine.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeletConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfigPool [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineHealthCheck [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Machine [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- MachineSet [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Metadata APIs
- Monitoring APIs
- About Monitoring APIs
- Alertmanager [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- AlertmanagerConfig [monitoring.coreos.com/v1beta1]
- AlertRelabelConfig [monitoring.openshift.io/v1]
- AlertingRule [monitoring.openshift.io/v1]
- PodMonitor [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- Probe [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- Prometheus [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- PrometheusRule [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- ServiceMonitor [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- ThanosRuler [monitoring.coreos.com/v1]
- NodeMetrics [metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- PodMetrics [metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- Network APIs
- About Network APIs
- AdminNetworkPolicy [policy.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha1]
- AdminPolicyBasedExternalRoute [k8s.ovn.org/v1]
- BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy [policy.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha1]
- CloudPrivateIPConfig [cloud.network.openshift.io/v1]
- EgressFirewall [k8s.ovn.org/v1]
- EgressIP [k8s.ovn.org/v1]
- EgressQoS [k8s.ovn.org/v1]
- EgressService [k8s.ovn.org/v1]
- Endpoints [undefined/v1]
- EndpointSlice [discovery.k8s.io/v1]
- EgressRouter [network.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- IngressClass [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- IPPool [whereabouts.cni.cncf.io/v1alpha1]
- MultiNetworkPolicy [k8s.cni.cncf.io/v1beta1]
- NetworkAttachmentDefinition [k8s.cni.cncf.io/v1]
- NetworkPolicy [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- OverlappingRangeIPReservation [whereabouts.cni.cncf.io/v1alpha1]
- PodNetworkConnectivityCheck [controlplane.operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1]
- Route [route.openshift.io/v1]
- Service [undefined/v1]
- Node APIs
- OAuth APIs
- Operator APIs
- About Operator APIs
- Authentication [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- CloudCredential [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterCSIDriver [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Console [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [samples.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- CSISnapshotController [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- DNS [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- DNSRecord [ingress.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Etcd [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageContentSourcePolicy [operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1]
- ImagePruner [imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- IngressController [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- InsightsOperator [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeAPIServer [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeControllerManager [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeScheduler [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeStorageVersionMigrator [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfiguration [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OpenShiftAPIServer [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OpenShiftControllerManager [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorPKI [network.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceCA [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Storage [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub APIs
- About OperatorHub APIs
- CatalogSource [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- ClusterServiceVersion [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- InstallPlan [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- OLMConfig [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- Operator [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- OperatorCondition [operators.coreos.com/v2]
- OperatorGroup [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- PackageManifest [packages.operators.coreos.com/v1]
- Subscription [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- Policy APIs
- Project APIs
- Provisioning APIs
- About Provisioning APIs
- BMCEventSubscription [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- BareMetalHost [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- DataImage [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- FirmwareSchema [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- HardwareData [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- HostFirmwareComponents [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- HostFirmwareSettings [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- Metal3Remediation [infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1]
- Metal3RemediationTemplate [infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1]
- PreprovisioningImage [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- Provisioning [metal3.io/v1alpha1]
- RBAC APIs
- Role APIs
- Schedule and quota APIs
- About Schedule and quota APIs
- AppliedClusterResourceQuota [quota.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterResourceQuota [quota.openshift.io/v1]
- FlowSchema [flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1]
- LimitRange [undefined/v1]
- PriorityClass [scheduling.k8s.io/v1]
- PriorityLevelConfiguration [flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1]
- ResourceQuota [undefined/v1]
- Security APIs
- About Security APIs
- CertificateSigningRequest [certificates.k8s.io/v1]
- CredentialsRequest [cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicyReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicySelfSubjectReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicySubjectReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- RangeAllocation [security.openshift.io/v1]
- Secret [undefined/v1]
- SecurityContextConstraints [security.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceAccount [undefined/v1]
- Storage APIs
- About Storage APIs
- CSIDriver [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSINode [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSIStorageCapacity [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- PersistentVolume [undefined/v1]
- PersistentVolumeClaim [undefined/v1]
- StorageClass [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- StorageState [migration.k8s.io/v1alpha1]
- StorageVersionMigration [migration.k8s.io/v1alpha1]
- VolumeAttachment [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeSnapshot [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeSnapshotClass [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeSnapshotContent [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1]
- Template APIs
- User and group APIs
- Workloads APIs
- About Workloads APIs
- BuildConfig [build.openshift.io/v1]
- Build [build.openshift.io/v1]
- BuildLog [build.openshift.io/v1]
- BuildRequest [build.openshift.io/v1]
- CronJob [batch/v1]
- DaemonSet [apps/v1]
- Deployment [apps/v1]
- DeploymentConfig [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- DeploymentConfigRollback [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- DeploymentLog [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- DeploymentRequest [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- Job [batch/v1]
- Pod [undefined/v1]
- ReplicationController [undefined/v1]
- ReplicaSet [apps/v1]
- StatefulSet [apps/v1]
- Virtualization
- About
- Getting started
- Installing
- Postinstallation configuration
- Updating
- Virtual machines
- Creating VMs from Red Hat images
- Creating VMs from custom images
- Connecting to VM consoles
- Specifying an instance type or preference
- Configuring SSH access to VMs
- Editing virtual machines
- Editing boot order
- Deleting virtual machines
- Exporting virtual machines
- Managing virtual machine instances
- Controlling virtual machine states
- Using virtual Trusted Platform Module devices
- Managing virtual machines with OpenShift Pipelines
- Advanced virtual machine management
- Working with resource quotas for virtual machines
- Configuring the Application-Aware Quota Operator
- Specifying nodes for virtual machines
- Activating kernel samepage merging (KSM)
- Configuring certificate rotation
- Configuring the default CPU model
- UEFI mode for virtual machines
- Configuring PXE booting for virtual machines
- Using huge pages with virtual machines
- Enabling dedicated resources for a virtual machine
- Scheduling virtual machines
- Configuring PCI passthrough
- Configuring virtual GPUs
- Configuring USB host passthrough
- Enabling descheduler evictions on virtual machines
- About high availability for virtual machines
- Control plane tuning
- Assigning compute resources
- About multi-queue functionality
- Managing virtual machines by using OpenShift GitOps
- VM disks
- Networking
- Networking configuration overview
- Connecting a VM to the default pod network
- Exposing a VM by using a service
- Accessing a VM by using its internal FQDN
- Connecting a VM to a Linux bridge network
- Connecting a VM to an SR-IOV network
- Using DPDK with SR-IOV
- Connecting a VM to an OVN-Kubernetes secondary network
- Hot plugging secondary network interfaces
- Connecting a VM to a service mesh
- Configuring a dedicated network for live migration
- Configuring and viewing IP addresses
- Accessing a VM by using its external FQDN
- Managing MAC address pools for network interfaces
- Storage
- Storage configuration overview
- Configuring storage profiles
- Managing automatic boot source updates
- Reserving PVC space for file system overhead
- Configuring local storage by using HPP
- Enabling user permissions to clone data volumes across namespaces
- Configuring CDI to override CPU and memory quotas
- Preparing CDI scratch space
- Using preallocation for data volumes
- Managing data volume annotations
- Understanding virtual machine storage with the CSI paradigm
- Live migration
- Nodes
- Monitoring
- Support
- Backup and restore
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Learn more about OKD
Use the following sections to find content to help you learn about and better understand OKD functions:
Installation
Explore the following OKD installation tasks:
| Learn about installation on OKD | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
Selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users |
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Other cluster installer tasks
| Learn about other installer tasks on OKD | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
Install a cluster in a restricted network
| Learn about installing in a restricted network | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
If your cluster uses user-provisioned infrastructure, and the cluster does not have full access to the internet, you must mirror the OKD installation images. |
Install a cluster in an existing network
| Learn about installing in a restricted network | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
If you use an existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or GCP or an existing VNet on Microsoft Azure, you can install a cluster |
Cluster Administrator
| Learn about OKD cluster activities | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
Managing and changing cluster components
Managing cluster components
| Learn about managing cluster components | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
Manage compute and control plane machines with machine sets. |
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Manage ingress, API server, and service certificates |
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Changing cluster components
| Learn more about changing cluster components | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
Use custom resource definitions (CRDs) to modify the cluster |
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Application Site Reliability Engineer (App SRE)
| Learn about OKD | Deploy and manage applications | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|---|
Developer
Develop and deploy containerized applications with OKD. OKD is a platform for developing and deploying containerized applications. Read the following OKD documentation, so that you can better understand OKD functions:
| Learn about application development in OKD | Optional additional resources |
|---|---|
Getting started with OpenShift for developers (interactive tutorial) |
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Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces) |
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Configuring an OpenShift cluster by deploying an application with cluster configurations |