Chapter 2. Learn more about OpenShift Container Platform Use the following sections to find content to help you learn about and better understand OpenShift Container Platform functions: 2.1. Learning and support Learn about OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources What's new in OpenShift Container Platform OpenShift blog OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy OpenShift Container Platform life cycle OpenShift Interactive Learning Portal OpenShift Knowledgebase articles Getting Support Gathering data about your cluster 2.2. Architecture Learn about OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources Enterprise Kubernetes with OpenShift Tested platforms Architecture Security and compliance Networking OVN-Kubernetes architecture Backup and restore Restoring to a cluster state 2.3. Installation Explore the following OpenShift Container Platform installation tasks: Learn about installation on OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources OpenShift Container Platform installation overview Selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users Installing a cluster in FIPS mode About FIPS compliance 2.4. Other cluster installer tasks Learn about other installer tasks on OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources Troubleshooting installation issues Validating an installation Install Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image layering Install a cluster in a restricted network Learn about installing in a restricted network Optional additional resources About disconnected installation mirroring If your cluster uses user-provisioned infrastructure, and the cluster does not have full access to the internet, you must mirror the OpenShift Container Platform installation images. Amazon Web Services (AWS) GCP vSphere IBM Cloud(R) IBM Z(R) and IBM(R) LinuxONE IBM Power(R) bare metal Install a cluster in an existing network Learn about installing in a restricted network Optional additional resources If you use an existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or GCP or an existing VNet on Microsoft Azure, you can install a cluster Installing a cluster on GCP into a shared VPC 2.5. Cluster Administrator Learn about OpenShift Container Platform cluster activities Optional additional resources Understand OpenShift Container Platform management Machine API Operators Enable cluster capabilities Optional cluster capabilities in OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 2.5.1. Managing and changing cluster components Managing cluster components Learn about managing cluster components Optional additional resources Manage compute and control plane machines with machine sets. Deploying machine health checks About control plane machine sets Applying autoscaling to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster Including pod priority in pod scheduling decisions Manage container registries Red Hat Quay Manage users and groups Impersonating the system:admin user Manage authentication Multiple identity providers Manage Ingress , API server , and Service certificates Network security Manage networking Cluster Network Operator Multiple network interfaces Network policy Manage Operators Creating applications from installed Operators Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers overview Understanding Windows container workloads Changing cluster components Learn more about changing cluster components Optional additional resources Updating a cluster Updating a cluster using the web console Updating using the CLI Using the OpenShift Update Service in a disconnected environment Use custom resource definitions (CRDs) to modify the cluster Create a CRD Manage resources from CRDs Set resource quotas Set quotas Prune and reclaim resources Performing advanced builds Scale and tune clusters OpenShift Container Platform scalability and performance 2.6. Observe a cluster Learn about OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources Release notes for the Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform (Jaeger) Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Gathering the observability data from multiple clusters About Network Observability Using metrics with dashboards and alerts Obsserving the network traffic from the Traffic flows view About OpenShift Container Platform monitoring Remote health monitoring Power monitoring for Red Hat OpenShift (Technology Preview) 2.7. Storage activities Learn about OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources Storage types Persistent storage Ephemeral storage 2.8. Application Site Reliability Engineer (App SRE) Learn about OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources Building applications overview Projects Operators Cluster Operator reference OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Blogs about logging 2.9. Developer Develop and deploy containerized applications with OpenShift Container Platform. OpenShift Container Platform is a platform for developing and deploying containerized applications. Read the following OpenShift Container Platform documentation, so that you can better understand OpenShift Container Platform functions: Learn about application development in OpenShift Container Platform Optional additional resources Getting started with OpenShift for developers (interactive tutorial) Creating applications Creating applications using the Developer perspective Understand OpenShift Container Platform development Work with projects Create deployments Red Hat Developers site Builds Understand image builds Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces) Operators Create container images Images odo Developer-focused CLI Viewing application composition using the Topology view Exporting applications Understanding OpenShift Pipelines Create CI/CD Pipelines Configuring an OpenShift cluster by deploying an application with cluster configurations Controlling pod placement using node taints Creating infrastructure machine sets 2.10. Hosted control planes Learn about hosted control planes Optional additional resources Hosted control planes overview Versioning for hosted control planes Preparing to deploy Requirements for hosted control planes Sizing guidance for hosted control planes Overriding resource utilization measurements Installing the hosted control planes command-line interface Distributing hosted cluster workloads Enabling or disabling the hosted control planes feature Deploying hosted control planes Deploying hosted control planes on OpenShift Virtualization Deploying hosted control planes on AWS Deploying hosted control planes on bare metal Deploying hosted control planes on non-bare-metal agent machines Deploying hosted control planes on IBM Z Deploying hosted control planes on IBM Power Deploying hosted control planes in a disconnected environment Deploying hosted control planes on bare metal in a disconnected environment Deploying hosted control planes on OpenShift Virtualization in a disconnected environment Troubleshooting hosted control planes Gathering information to troubleshoot hosted control planes

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