Operating OpenShift

An SRE Approach to Managing Infrastructure


Operating OpenShift
Operating OpenShift

Book Details

Authors Rick Rackow, Manuel Dewald
Publisher O'Reilly Media
Published 2023
Edition 1
Paperback 264 pages
Language English
ISBN-13 9781098106386, 9781098106393, 9781098159559
ISBN-10 1098106385, 1098106393, 1098159551
License Compliments of Red Hat

Book Description

Red Hat OpenShift provides several layers of abstraction over vanilla Kubernetes, but navigating its rich feature set and functionality can be daunting. Operating OpenShift is a practical guide to running and operating OpenShift clusters more efficiently using a site reliability engineering (SRE) approach.

Kubernetes has gained significant popularity over the past few years, with OpenShift as one of its most mature and prominent distributions. But while OpenShift provides several layers of abstraction over vanilla Kubernetes, this software can quickly become overwhelming because of itsrich feature set and functionality. This practical book helps you understand and manage OpenShift clusters from minimal deployment to large multicluster installations.

Principal site reliability engineers Rick Rackow and Manuel Dewald, who worked together on Red Hat's managed OpenShift offering for years, provide valuable advice to help your teams operate OpenShift clusters efficiently. Designed for SREs, system administrators, DevOps engineers, andcloud architects, Operating OpenShift encourages consistent and easy container orchestration and helps reduce the effort of deploying a Kubernetes platform. You'll learn why OpenShift has become highly attractive to enterprises large and small.

This book is specially tailored for SREs, system administrators, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects looking to understand and manage OpenShift clusters, from minimal deployment to large multicluster installations. Authors Rick Rackow and Manuel Dewald highlight best practices and tools that can help reduce the effort of deploying a Kubernetes platform.

- Learn OpenShift core concepts and deployment strategies
- Explore multicluster OpenShift Container Platform deployments
- Administer OpenShift clusters following best practices
- Learn best practices for deploying workloads to OpenShift
- Monitor OpenShift clusters through state-of-the-art concepts
- Build and deploy Kubernetes operators to automate administrative tasks
- Configure OpenShift clusters using a GitOps approach


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