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Learning series: Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x on IBM Power Virtual Servers

Quickly fire up a Red Hat OpenShift development or test cluster for application modernization projects

By Erik O'Neill, Pradipta Banerjee

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Introduction

Welcome to the learning series for Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform on IBM® Power® Virtual Server. The goal of this learning series is to guide you through the setup and deployment steps necessary to create an OpenShift cluster in a Power Virtual Server environment.

Power Virtual Server is a family of configurable multi-tenant virtual IBM Power servers with access to IBM Cloud® services. With the Power Virtual Server service, you can quickly create and deploy one or more virtual servers (that are running the IBM AIX®, IBM i, or Linux® operating systems). This learning series shows you how to create a Red Hat OpenShift cluster in your Power Virtual Server account using three different installation methods.

After you successfully deploy OpenShift on a Power Virtual Server cluster, we provide additional tutorials that can help you to explore and understand the environment. These tutorials are not meant to be comprehensive but rather provide a sample, initial-use experience from where you can start your exploration and learning journey.

We also provide tutorials to explore deployment of IBM Cloud Pak®in the Power Systems Virtual Server environment. We guide you through the installation of IBM Cloud Pak for Data into your cluster as a representative Cloud Pak, and some simple tutorials for exploring a subset of features of Cloud Pak for Data as a starting point for your own learning journey. IBM Cloud Pak offerings are an integrated set of AI-infused software solutions for hybrid cloud that help you fully implement intelligent workflows in your business to accelerate digital transformation. The solutions are built on the Red Hat open hybrid cloud platform so you can build once and deploy anywhere.

Some of the benefits of OpenShift on Power Virtual Server include:

  • Providing a great place to begin extension and modernization of workloads
  • Provisioning a development/test environment for modernization in the cloud
  • Enabling automation to assist clients with installing OpenShift and deploying a cluster
  • Enabling IBM Cloud Paks, ISV, and open source software to be deployed

OpenShift on Power Virtual Server is a Bring Your Own License offering, which means that to deploy a cluster, you will need to have the necessary license entitlement for OpenShift and if needed, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power (for the Bastion node in case you plan to use the UPI installation method). Trial licenses for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, and IBM Cloud Pak for Data are available at:

Learning path: Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift on Power Virtual Server

Upon completing this learning path, you will be able to:

  • Set up Power Virtual Server for deploying OpenShift Container Platform
  • Install OpenShift on Power Virtual Server using any of these three methods:
    • Installer provisioned infrastructure (IPI) installation
    • User provisioned infrastructure (UPI) installation
    • Container image installation helper script

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Tutorial: Install OpenShift on Power Virtual Server private infrastructure

Upon completing this tutorial, you will have an understanding of:

  • What resources are required for a cluster
  • How to configure a pre-selected set of resources on a Power Systems Virtual Server Private PoD
  • How to tie these resources together using the OpenShift Installer to create an OCP cluster

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Learning path: Exploring Red Hat OpenShift on Power Systems Virtual Server

Upon completion of this learning path, you will be able to:

  • Deploy Acme Air microservices application on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
  • Deploy a sample MongoDB geospatial application on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
  • Enable continuous deployment using Red Hat OpenShift S2I and GitHub webhooks
  • Deliver webhooks without worrying about firewalls
  • Build and publish Docker images from a GitHub source using Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines
  • Deploy a 3-tier application on Red Hat OpenShift
  • Install IBM Cloud Pak for Data 3.5 on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 on IBM Power Systems Virtual Server
  • Install IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.0 on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 on IBM Power Systems Virtual Server
  • Install IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access 5.1.2.1 on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 on IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers
  • Deploy Enterprise MongoDB using Helm charts on Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Power Systems
  • Build an application on IBM Power Systems Virtual Server using Tekton pipeline and triggers

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