Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a managed offering to create your own cluster of compute hosts where you can deploy and manage containerized apps on IBM Cloud. Combined with an intuitive user experience, built-in security and isolation, and advanced tools to secure, manage, and monitor your cluster workloads, you can rapidly deliver highly available and secure containerized apps in the public cloud.
Complete the following steps to get familiar with the basics, understand the service components, create your first cluster, and deploy a starter app.
Review the basics
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Get an overview of the service by reviewing the concepts and terms, and benefits. For more information, see Understanding Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
Already familiar with containers and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud? Continue to the next step to prepare your account for creating clusters.
Prepare your account
To set up your IBM Cloud account so that you can create clusters, see Preparing your account to create clusters.
If you've already prepared your account and you're ready to create a cluster, continue to the next step.
Create a cluster
Follow a tutorial, or set up your own custom cluster environment. Review the following table for your deployment options.
Type | Level | Time | Deployment method | Description |
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Tutorial | Beginner | 30 minutes | Automated via IBM Cloud Schematics | Creating a 2 node VPC cluster by using Schematics. |
Tutorial | Beginner | 45 minutes | CLI | Creating a classic cluster from the CLI. |
Tutorial | Beginner | 60 minutes | CLI | Create a cluster in your own Virtual Private Cloud. |
Custom deployment | Intermediate | 1-3 hours | UI, CLI, or Terraform | Create a custom cluster on Classic infrastructure. |
Custom deployment | Intermediate | 1-3 hours | UI, CLI, or Terraform | Create a custom cluster on VPC infrastructure. |
Already have a cluster? Continue to the next step to deploy a sample app!
Deploy a sample app
After you create your cluster, deploy a sample app from the Red Hat OpenShift console, you can deploy one of the built-in service catalog apps and expose the app with a route.
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From the navigation menu, change from the Administrator perspective to Developer perspective.
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Click +Add > View all samples > Go.
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Wait a few minutes for the resources to deploy.
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Check the status from the Topology pane by clicking your
Go
app and reviewing the sidebar. -
When the deployment is complete. Click the Open URL button to view your app in a web browser.
Hello World!
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To clean up the resources that you created, delete your deployment from the Topology pane.
What's next?
Check out the curated learning paths