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The hosting cluster and workers must run on the same infrastructure. For example, you cannot run your hosting cluster on bare metal and your workers on the cloud. However, the hub cluster and workers do not need to run on the same platform. For example, you might run your hosting cluster on bare metal and workers on OKD Virtualization.

The control plane is associated with a hosted cluster and runs as pods in a single namespace. When the cluster service consumer creates a hosted cluster, it creates a worker node that is independent of the control plane.

Platform and version requirements for Hosted control planes

The following table indicates which OKD versions are supported for each platform. In the table, Hosting OKD version refers to the OKD version where the multicluster engine Operator is enabled:

Table 1. Required OKD versions for platforms
Platform Hosting OKD version Hosted OKD version

Amazon Web Services

4.11 - 4.16

4.14 - 4.16 (only)

IBM Power

4.16

4.16 (only)

IBM Z

4.16

4.16 (only)

OKD Virtualization

4.14 - 4.16

4.14 - 4.16 (only)

Bare metal

4.14 - 4.16

4.14 - 4.16 (only)

Non-bare metal agent machines

4.16

4.16 (only)