OpenShift Workloads from On-Premises to AWS Cloud [ROSA]
If you are worrying about OpenShift workloads on On-Premises?, Or want to use a self managed service without having to spend time and resources managing the underlying platform and infrastructure, Then this article must be for you.
𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗪𝗦 (𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗔) is generally available now !
So what’s the meaning of the above statement ? …. Let me simplify it for you.
What is ROSA ?
Red Hat & Amazon Web Services (AWS) have collaborated to offer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), A fully managed and jointly supported offering, available via the AWS Management console. With this announcement, Now there is no need to worrying about your underlying infrastructure you can just focus on deploying your applications, with tons of workloads and Red Hat OpenShift will be the first third party offering available on the AWS console.
If you are already using OpenShift, How it can be helpful for you ?
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Can simplify the ability to shift workloads to the cloud and making it even easier for you to adapt containers and deploy their applications faster on AWS, without having to spend time and resources managing the underlying platform and infrastructure.
What are the features it’s offering ?
- Access of ROSA on-demand from the AWS console.
- Create fully-managed OpenShift clusters in minutes with self-service deployment, so you can get up and running quickly.
- Receive the benefit of an integrated support & billing experience with a single invoice from AWS and the ability to contact AWS or Red Hat for support.
- Quickly build and deploy applications on Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes platform, using the same tools and APIs they would use on-premises or on any other public cloud.
- Build containerized applications that integrate with the more than 170+ AWS cloud-native services.
and much more on the way ….
If you was already using it on AWS Cloud, Now what’s the main advantage you can take from it?
Now you can accelerate your application development process by leveraging standard APIs and existing Red Hat OpenShift tools for your AWS deployments. You’ll also be able to take advantage and can integrate the wide range of AWS compute, database, analytics, machine learning, networking, mobile, and other services to improve customer agility, rate of innovation, and scalability.
How can one get started with creating and using the cluster ?
Let’s start some hands-on to create a cluster and use it:
- You must follow these Prerequisites and give appropriate permissions to start with below process.
- Firstly you have to login in AWS and click on `Enable OpenShift` On ROSA service page.
- By this link you can download the ROSA-CLI and get started with creating the cluster.
- Now you have to run below commands to get starting with it.
That’s all for now … We will catch up again for some another uses cases.
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