Introduction to the lab environment

Before jumping into the hands-on sections let’s get familiar with the lab environment we have available.

The following lab sections rely on having a lab environment accessible in order to do the hands-on work. If you’re a Red Hatter, you can order a lab environment already set up for you on the Red Hat Demo Platform. You just need to order the lab named 5G RAN Deployment on OpenShift. 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 12 hours total (2h provisioning time, 5h lab work, 5h margin). If you need further time, it can be manually extended up to 24h in total. If you still need to deploy a lab environment, follow the guide available here.

OpenShift Management Cluster

An OpenShift cluster is running on the infrastructure host, you can reach it out at https://console-openshift-console.apps.management.hypershift.lab from your browser and at https://api.management.hypershift.lab:6443 from your oc client.

You can reach the Management’s cluster OCP console through the pre-configured Firefox Management OCP Console bookmark icon bookmark.

Credentials for the OCP cluster:

  • Username: admin

  • Password: The password is randomly generated for each environment. In case you configured the lab yourself, you defined this password.