Before you begin

1. Install the required CLI tools.
2. Create your Satellite cluster.

Accessing clusters through the cluster service URL

Connect to your cluster through its service URL, which has the format https://p1iuql40jam23qiuxt833-...satellite.appdomain.cloud:30710.

1. In the IBM Cloud console, navigate to your cluster.
2. Click Red Hat OpenShift web console.
3. Click your profile name, then click Copy Login Command > Display Token.
4. Copy the oc login command and paste it into your terminal.

If your hosts have private network connectivity only, you must connect through VPN to access the console. See Accessing clusters from the public network for options.

Accessing clusters from within the IBM Cloud private network

Use the Satellite Link endpoint to connect through the secured Link tunnel server. The endpoint format is c-02.<region>.link.satellite.cloud.ibm.com:<port>.

To use the --endpoint link option, you must configure a Source in your location. For more information, see Accessing your Red Hat OpenShift API Satellite link endpoints.

ibmcloud oc cluster config -c CLUSTER_NAME_OR_ID --endpoint link --admin

Accessing clusters from the public network

If your hosts have public network connectivity and you want to connect from your local machine without a private VPN, you can update your cluster's subdomain DNS records to use your hosts' public IP addresses.

Making location and cluster subdomains publicly accessible is not recommended for production workloads.

For full steps, see Satellite Link endpoint documentation.