Introduction

Welcome to this Hosted Control Planes on Baremetal Lab.

The first part of this lab is an introduction to the required concepts that one needs to know when planning and running Hosted Control Planes on Baremetal environments. The second part is a practical scenario where we will run a Hosted Cluster on Baremetal.

The second part of this lab requires a lab environment, we recommend ordering the lab before starting the first part of this lab so by the time you end the first part of the lab, the environment should be ready. If you are a Red Hatter you can order a lab environment already setup for you on the Red Hat Demo Platform. You just need to order the lab named Hosted Control Planes on Baremetal. Notice that it has a cost of ~ $56 to run through the lab. When the lab is launched, by default you will have 12 hours to complete it before it is destroyed. The estimated time to finish the lab might look like 5 hours total (40m provisioning time, 3h lab work, 1h20m margin). If you need further time, it can be manually extended up to 24h in total. If you don’t have access to the demo platform but still need to deploy a lab environment, follow the guide available here.

Who is this lab aimed at?

The lab is aimed to technical profiles working with OpenShift who are interested in any of these areas:

  • Benefits of using Hosted Control Planes.

  • Working with telecom customers/partners in projects involving CORE workloads.

  • Uses cases for Hosted Control Planes.

  • Getting familiar with Hosted Control Planes.

Lab Software Versions

The lab is based on the following software versions.

  • Management Cluster OpenShift v4.13.0

  • MCE v2.3

  • Hosted Control Planes v4.13.0