ODCN’s journey to connecting OpenShift clusters securely and transparently with Submariner
Channel: OpenShift
Date: 05/05/2021

OpenShift Commons Gathering at Kubecon/EU 2021
May 4th, 2021

Title: ODCN’s journey to connecting OpenShift clusters securely and transparently with Submariner 

Speakers:
Martijn Straatman (ODC-Noord)
Stephen Kitt (Red Hat)

Abstract:
This talk will present a proof of concept built by ODC-Noord, from the perspective of the customer and of the engineers working at Red Hat. 
We will discuss the proof of concept as well as the collaboration itself. Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODCN) provides modern, sustainable and reliable IT infrastructure for the Dutch government, running Kubernetes containers since 2018 on Tectonic, then OpenShift, on an OpenStack-based cloud. ODCN hosts a growing number of workloads, on multiple clusters, and the next step is to improve reliability by connecting clusters in different datacenters. Submariner provides secure connectivity between Kubernetes clusters, with transparent and configurable access to pods and services in other clusters. ODCN and Red Hat worked together to establish whether Submariner could meet ODCN’s requirements. The proof of concept got ODCN up to speed quickly on this new technology, and helped Red Hat drive the project’s roadmap in a customer-centric manner.

https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_at_Kubecon_EU.html