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- About
- What's new?
- Release notes
- Architecture
- Installing
- Mirroring images for a disconnected installation
- Installing on AWS
- Configuring an AWS account
- Manually creating IAM
- Installing a cluster quickly on AWS
- Installing a cluster on AWS with customizations
- Installing a cluster on AWS with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on AWS in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on AWS into an existing VPC
- Installing a private cluster on AWS
- Installing a cluster on AWS into a government region
- Installing a cluster on AWS using CloudFormation templates
- Installing a cluster on AWS in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Uninstalling a cluster on AWS
- Installing on Azure
- Configuring an Azure account
- Manually creating IAM
- Installing a cluster quickly on Azure
- Installing a cluster on Azure with customizations
- Installing a cluster on Azure with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on Azure into an existing VNet
- Installing a private cluster on Azure
- Installing a cluster on Azure into a government region
- Installing a cluster on Azure using ARM templates
- Uninstalling a cluster on Azure
- Installing on GCP
- Configuring a GCP project
- Manually creating IAM
- 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 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
- Uninstalling a cluster on GCP
- Installing on bare metal
- Deploying installer-provisioned clusters on bare metal
- Installing on OpenStack
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with customizations
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with Kuryr
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack on your own infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack with Kuryr on your own infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on OpenStack in a restricted network
- Uninstalling a cluster on OpenStack
- Uninstalling a cluster on OpenStack from your own infrastructure
- Installing on RHV
- Installing on vSphere
- Installing a cluster on vSphere
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with customizations
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on vSphere with user-provisioned infrastructure and network customizations
- Installing a cluster on vSphere in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on vSphere in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Uninstalling a cluster on vSphere that uses installer-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing on VMC
- Installing a cluster on VMC
- Installing a cluster on VMC with customizations
- Installing a cluster on VMC with network customizations
- Installing a cluster on VMC in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on VMC with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Installing a cluster on VMC with user-provisioned infrastructure and network customizations
- Installing a cluster on VMC in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
- Uninstalling a cluster on VMC
- Installing on any platform
- Installation configuration
- Validating an installation
- Troubleshooting installation issues
- Updating clusters
- Post-installation configuration
- Web console
- 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
- User-provided certificates for default ingress
- Ingress certificates
- Monitoring and cluster logging Operator component certificates
- Control plane certificates
- Compliance Operator
- Compliance Operator release notes
- Supported compliance profiles
- Installing the Compliance Operator
- Compliance Operator scans
- Understanding the Compliance Operator
- Managing the Compliance Operator
- Tailoring the Compliance Operator
- Retrieving Compliance Operator raw results
- Managing Compliance Operator remediation
- Performing advanced Compliance Operator tasks
- Troubleshooting the Compliance Operator
- Uninstalling the Compliance Operator
- Understanding the Custom Resource Definitions
- File Integrity 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
- Authentication and authorization
- Authentication and authorization overview
- Understanding authentication
- Configuring the internal OAuth server
- Configuring OAuth clients
- 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
- Impersonating the system:admin user
- Syncing LDAP groups
- Networking
- Understanding networking
- Accessing hosts
- Networking Operators overview
- Understanding the Cluster Network Operator
- Understanding the DNS Operator
- Understanding the Ingress Operator
- Configuring the node port service range
- Using SCTP
- Configuring PTP hardware
- Network policy
- Multiple networks
- Hardware networks
- About Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) hardware networks
- Installing the SR-IOV Operator
- Configuring the SR-IOV Operator
- Configuring an SR-IOV network device
- Configuring an SR-IOV Ethernet network attachment
- Configuring an SR-IOV InfiniBand network attachment
- Adding pod to an SR-IOV network
- Using high performance multicast
- Using DPDK and RDMA
- Uninstalling the SR-IOV Operator
- OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider
- About the OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider
- Configuring egress IPs for a project
- Configuring an egress firewall for a project
- Viewing an egress firewall for a project
- Editing an egress firewall for a project
- Removing an egress firewall from a project
- Considerations for the use of an egress router pod
- Deploying an egress router pod in redirect mode
- Deploying an egress router pod in HTTP proxy mode
- Deploying an egress router pod in DNS proxy mode
- Configuring an egress router pod destination list from a config map
- Enabling multicast for a project
- Disabling multicast for a project
- Configuring multitenant isolation
- Configuring kube-proxy
- OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider
- About the OVN-Kubernetes network provider
- Migrating from the OpenShift SDN cluster network provider
- Rolling back to the OpenShift SDN cluster network provider
- Configuring an egress firewall for a project
- Viewing an egress firewall for a project
- Editing an egress firewall for a project
- Removing an egress firewall from a project
- Configuring an egress IP address
- Assigning an egress IP address
- Enabling multicast for a project
- Disabling multicast for a project
- Configuring hybrid networking
- Configuring Routes
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic
- Overview
- Configuring ExternalIPs for services
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using an Ingress Controller
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a load balancer
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic on AWS using a Network Load Balancer
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a service external IP
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic using a NodePort
- Configuring the cluster-wide proxy
- Configuring a custom PKI
- Load balancing on OpenStack
- 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 hostPath
- Persistent Storage using iSCSI
- Persistent storage using local volumes
- Persistent storage using NFS
- Persistent storage using Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage
- Persistent storage using VMware vSphere
- Using Container Storage Interface (CSI)
- Expanding persistent volumes
- Dynamic provisioning
- Registry
- Operators
- Operators overview
- Understanding Operators
- User tasks
- Administrator tasks
- Developing Operators
- About the Operator SDK
- Installing the Operator SDK CLI
- Creating Go-based Operators
- Creating Ansible-based Operators
- Creating Helm-based Operators
- Generating a cluster service version (CSV)
- Working with bundle images
- Validating Operators using the scorecard
- Configuring built-in monitoring with Prometheus
- Configuring leader election
- Operator SDK CLI reference
- Migrating to Operator SDK v0.1.0
- Appendices
- Red Hat Operators reference
- Builds
- Understanding image builds
- Understanding build configurations
- Creating build inputs
- Managing build output
- Using build strategies
- Custom image builds with Buildah
- Performing 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 templates
- Using Ruby on Rails
- Using images
- Applications
- Applications overview
- Projects
- Application life cycle management
- Deployments
- Quotas
- Using config maps with applications
- Monitoring project and application metrics using the Developer perspective
- Monitoring application health
- Idling applications
- Pruning objects to reclaim resources
- Using the Red Hat Marketplace
- Machine management
- 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
- 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
- Controlling pod placement onto nodes (scheduling)
- About pod placement using the scheduler
- Configuring the default scheduler to control pod placement
- 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
- Running a custom scheduler
- Evicting pods using the descheduler
- Using Jobs and DaemonSets
- Working with nodes
- Viewing and listing the nodes in your cluster
- Working with nodes
- Managing nodes
- Managing the maximum number of pods per node
- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Understanding node rebooting
- Freeing node resources using garbage collection
- Allocating resources for nodes
- Allocating specific CPUs for nodes in a cluster
- Machine Config Daemon metrics
- Working with containers
- Using 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
- Working with clusters
- Windows Container Support for OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers overview
- Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers release notes
- Understanding Windows container workloads
- Enabling Windows container workloads
- Creating Windows MachineSet objects
- Scheduling Windows container workloads
- Windows node upgrades
- Removing Windows nodes
- Disabling Windows container workloads
- Logging
- About cluster logging
- Installing cluster logging
- Configuring your cluster logging deployment
- About the Cluster Logging custom resource
- Configuring the logging collector
- Configuring the log store
- Configuring the log visualizer
- Configuring cluster logging storage
- Configuring CPU and memory limits for cluster logging components
- Using tolerations to control cluster logging pod placement
- Moving the cluster logging resources with node selectors
- Configuring systemd-journald for cluster logging
- Configuring the log curator
- Maintenance and support
- Viewing logs for a specific resource
- Viewing cluster logs in Kibana
- Forwarding logs to third party systems
- Collecting and storing Kubernetes events
- Updating cluster logging
- Viewing cluster dashboards
- Troubleshooting cluster logging
- Uninstalling cluster logging
- Exported fields
- Monitoring
- Metering
- Scalability and performance
- Recommended installation practices
- Recommended host practices
- Recommended cluster scaling practices
- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Using Cluster Loader
- Using CPU Manager
- Using Topology Manager
- Scaling the Cluster Monitoring Operator
- Planning your environment according to object maximums
- Optimizing storage
- Optimizing routing
- Optimizing networking
- Managing bare metal hosts
- What huge pages do and how they are consumed by apps
- Optimizing data plane performance with Intel devices
- 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
- Planning 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
- Editing kubelet log level verbosity and gathering logs
- API list
- 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]
- 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
- 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]
- Infrastructure [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OAuth [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Project [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Proxy [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Scheduler [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Console APIs
- Extension APIs
- 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]
- ImageStreamMapping [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStream [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- Machine APIs
- About Machine APIs
- ContainerRuntimeConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- ControllerConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeletConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfigPool [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineHealthCheck [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Machine [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- MachineSet [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Metadata APIs
- Monitoring APIs
- Network APIs
- About Network APIs
- ClusterNetwork [network.openshift.io/v1]
- Endpoints [core/v1]
- EndpointSlice [discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- EgressNetworkPolicy [network.openshift.io/v1]
- HostSubnet [network.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- IngressClass [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- IPPool [whereabouts.cni.cncf.io/v1alpha1]
- NetNamespace [network.openshift.io/v1]
- NetworkAttachmentDefinition [k8s.cni.cncf.io/v1]
- NetworkPolicy [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- Route [route.openshift.io/v1]
- Service [core/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]
- KubeAPIServer [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeControllerManager [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeScheduler [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeStorageVersionMigrator [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]
- OperatorGroup [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- PackageManifest [packages.operators.coreos.com/v1]
- Subscription [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- Policy APIs
- Project APIs
- Provisioning APIs
- 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/v1alpha1]
- LimitRange [core/v1]
- PriorityClass [scheduling.k8s.io/v1]
- PriorityLevelConfiguration [flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1alpha1]
- ResourceQuota [core/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 [core/v1]
- SecurityContextConstraints [security.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceAccount [core/v1]
- Storage APIs
- About Storage APIs
- CSIDriver [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSINode [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- PersistentVolumeClaim [core/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/v1beta1]
- VolumeSnapshotClass [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- VolumeSnapshotContent [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- Template APIs
- User and group APIs
- Workloads APIs
- About Workloads APIs
- BuildConfig [build.openshift.io/v1]
- Build [build.openshift.io/v1]
- CronJob [batch/v1beta1]
- DaemonSet [apps/v1]
- Deployment [apps/v1]
- DeploymentConfig [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- Job [batch/v1]
- Pod [core/v1]
- ReplicationController [core/v1]
- PersistentVolume [core/v1]
- ReplicaSet [apps/v1]
- StatefulSet [apps/v1]
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OKD storage overview
OKD supports multiple types of storage, both for on-premise and cloud providers. You can manage container storage for persistent and non-persistent data in an OKD cluster.
Storage Types
OKD storage is broadly classified into two categories, namely ephemeral storage and persistent storage.
Ephemeral storage
Pods and containers are ephemeral or transient in nature and designed for stateless applications. Ephemeral storage allows administrators and developers to better manage the local storage for some of their operations. For more information about ephemeral storage overview, types, and management, see Understanding ephemeral storage.
Persistent storage
Stateful applications deployed in containers require persistent storage. OKD uses a pre-provisioned storage framework called persistent volumes (PV) to allow cluster administrators to provision persistent storage. The data inside these volumes can exist beyond the lifecycle of an individual pod. Developers can use persistent volume claims (PVCs) to request storage requirements. For more information about persistent storage overview, configuration, and lifecycle, see Understanding persistent storage.
Container Storage Interface (CSI)
CSI is an API specification for the management of container storage across different container orchestration (CO) systems. You can manage the storage volumes within the container native environments, without having specific knowledge of the underlying storage infrastructure. With the CSI, storage works uniformly across different container orchestration systems, regardless of the storage vendors you are using. For more information about CSI, see Using Container Storage Interface (CSI).
Dynamic Provisioning
Dynamic Provisioning allows you to create storage volumes on-demand, eliminating the need for cluster administrators to pre-provision storage. For more information about dynamic provisioning, see Dynamic provisioning.