OpenShift (OCP) Architecture — A Guided Walkthrough

Ten short steps that explain what each part of an OpenShift cluster does, in plain language. Flip the switch to see what every layer means for a Maximo Application Suite 9 deployment.

The cluster at a glance
People & Machine Identities Users · Groups · Roles · RoleBindings OPENSHIFT CONTAINER PLATFORM CLUSTER Networking — the front door Routes · Services · Ingresses · NetworkPolicies Namespaces — the tenant walls WORKLOADS — THE ACTUAL SOFTWARE PodDeployment PodStatefulSet Job /CronJob ConfigMaps · Secrets · ReplicaSets · Autoscalers Storage PersistentVolumes PVCs StorageClasses Observe Metrics Alerting Dashboards Builds & Pipelines — the assembly line BuildConfigs · Builds · ImageStreams · Pipelines · Tasks · Triggers Compute — the machines underneath Control plane Worker node Worker node MachineSets Administration — the rules of the estate Cluster Settings · Namespaces · ResourceQuotas · LimitRanges · CRDs

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What you see in the console

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