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Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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

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.

Options for creating a cluster
Type Level Time Deployment method Description
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.

  1. From the navigation menu, change from the Administrator perspective to Developer perspective.

  2. Click +Add > View all samples > Go.

  3. Wait a few minutes for the resources to deploy.

  4. Check the status from the Topology pane by clicking your Go app and reviewing the sidebar.

  5. When the deployment is complete. Click the Open URL button to view your app in a web browser.

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  6. To clean up the resources that you created, delete your deployment from the Topology pane.

What's next?

Check out the curated learning paths