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From YouTube: OpenShift Hosted Services Update Patrick Strick (Red Hat)

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OpenShift Hosted Services Update Patrick Strick (Red Hat)

https://openshift.com

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
OpenShift Dedicated

The OpenShift Commons Gathering was held on Jan 29th, 2020 in London, UK, and featured guest speakers from local customers and users. The OpenShift Commons Gatherings brought together 300+ experts from all over the world to discuss container technologies, best practices for cloud native application developers and the open source software projects that underpin the OpenShift/Kubernetes ecosystem.

https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/London_2020.html

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All right, thank you, so I'm Patrick, strict I'm, the product manager for openshift dedicated and as your Red Hat openshift, which from now on I'm just going to abbreviate, aaro or aro, because it's a really long name and then, as she mentioned, Andrew Kathy, ow Katherine is right. Over there and he'll be up for the AMA. You can come up now. If he wants.

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So the idea that you may be asking yourself what is openshift dedicated and what's what's aro I've heard this before, but I, don't really know what that is. The answer is really simple: it's just OpenShift! The difference is that we manage the provisioning and operations and security of the cluster. For you. That's that's really the only difference, the the the it's exactly the same, OpenShift same installer that you would get if you downloaded the IPI installer from from try dodd, OpenShift, comm and installed it yourself.

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So the value we provide is a consistent experience that you know all of our customers can get and the value of the knowledge that we get from managing all these all these different customers, and also the price, is basically the same as if you didn't, if you just bought the OCP. So if you're, comparing between OCP and one of our managed offerings, there's it's pretty much the same price between the two.

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So what's our goal, we want to be the preferred way that OpenShift is run in the cloud. How do we get there? We do that by removing any of the friction that you would experience, provisioning your cluster operating the cluster or securing the cluster. We want to make sure that it's as easy a process as possible for you.

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You know this may look familiar. This is a you know. If you have to open shift in your environment, this is kind of a rough topology.

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You can see from the thing on the left, all the doesn't show up very well, but the there's grey boxes beside most of the top of those and those are the things that you're responsible for in a normal self-managed, OpenShift, environment, right, you're, responsible for user management, quota management, cluster creation, cluster management, logging and monitoring the cluster network, configuration and software and security updates, and then red head is obviously there for you to support the platform.

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So this is what it looks like from a managed open shift perspective right. We take everything from cluster creation down and we handle that for you, so that you can focus your business on the the value generating aspects which is getting your applications developed and published and available to your customers.

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There's a few so what we're doing to get to where we want to be when open shift4 was released in June last year we started working on making the product as self-service as possible.

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So we take OpenShift, took a bunch of 4 and we said what can we do to to make it easier for you and we built a whole infrastructure and web interface, and it also has an API and COI that will be coming out what you know it's available there, but it's not public that you can use to interact with the cluster, create the cluster and you know big changes to it, see the stats for it. So we've spent the last six to seven months, really focusing on that self-service piece.

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We wanted to make the experience as easy as possible. We've now that we've got the groundwork laid there and and that's in a really good place, we're moving more towards the second two pillars.

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Second, two initiatives, which is to showcase everything that openshift floor, has to offer for you from a developer experience perspective and then enhancing the value based on you know, specific configuration needs or you know, new features that may not come from OpenShift itself that that you would want, and it would be helpful for you to grow your business there's a few just highlights of upcoming work, both from openshift dedicated and from arrow.

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The stock to type 1 and I, say 27,000 are we're wrapping those up so those if you're interested in those type of compliance, certifications we'll have that very soon. Similarly, on the arrow side, we are wrapping up some regular initial regulatory compliance, which will also include those Saucony.

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So the second bullet there I added, because it's not something we would normally include on the public road map, but because you all operate openshift or okd yourselves I wanted to talk a little bit about what we're you know, the things that we do so we do vulnerability and access control scans today, but they're manual.

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So the team has to go in and you know, go through a checklist and make sure everything is good, so they're going through and creating a whole automated process to regular consistently regularly do these vulnerability, scans and access control scans on the arrow side, you'll notice, it says open shift for 3. So today arrow is 311. When arrow was launched last year, OpenShift didn't support Azure as a cloud platform, so since, since it has we've added, so we added that support and open shift. The team has been working very hard architecting.

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What the design will look like in a narrow perspective, because arrow, if you're, not where it is a native Azure service. So it's where openshift dedicated you know. We are running this cluster on AWS and we partner with AWS with Azure it's a joint team or with arrow it's a joint team with the the Azure service and I'm going to show you a little bit about that. So we've been architecting and that will be coming later this year.

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Another kind of back-end thing I wanted to talk about is that OpenShift dedicated is not just something that businesses use external customers use. We use it ourselves, we use it to service and deliver OpenShift itself right. So some of these are code names that you might have heard in different okd conversations or maybe summit presentations.

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Tollbooth is where data comes in and get in talks to from your cluster to our cluster I'm same with the delimiter feedback. Loop Cincinnati is the engine that handles the upgrades for the OpenShift clusters. Opens you four clusters that are in the field. So when you subscribe to the fast channel or the stable channel those channels and what upgrade graph looks like for each one is hosted in Cincinnati and then Quay and all the all your subscription and entitlement management, those all run on OpenShift dedicated.

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So just a quick. What does it look like to revision? Oh, pathetic I said it's. We want to remove the friction. So what does that look like? This? Is a screenshot based demo.

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So if you go to cloud but Red, Hat comm, which, if you have open shift at all, you should go to I, go to open chef. Cluster manager and you'll see a list of your clusters, whether they're, OCP or OSD, you'll see all your clusters that are open shift for in there and you can see if there's an update to one. You can update it from there if it's OCP, but if you click create cluster you'll, get to choose which one, depending on your subscription.

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If you have a subscription for dedicated, you click that do you want to install it in your in your AWS account, which is the customer cloud subscription or in Red Hat's AWS accounts put in give it a name pick which region is that a single AZ or multi AZ, which node type? Do you want for your compute?

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How many of those nodes, how much persistent storage, how many extra load balancers? If you have a subscription for additional balancers? And then, if you have a cider range that you need us to use, you can put that in especially if you're doing you know VPN connection back to your own data center and then click create Crest cluster and that's it within 30 minutes. You'll have a fully functional open shift for cluster that has CA certs applied to it already it's.

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You know fully configured on the AWS side, whether it's your AWS or our AWS will take care of configuring. The VPC and making sure that everything is set up and it'll be also monitored by our SRE team, and our sra team will be getting alerts for it once it's up. You can scale the cluster up or down by nodes, load, balancers or storage very easily from this interface, and so that's my quick for OpenShift dedicated for aro. It's a very similar process, but because it's a Azure service, you can use the AZ CLI.

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You just do a Z, open shift, create and within a few minutes, arrow takes about 15 to 18 minutes, it'll be done and you'll have an open shift cluster and it will spit out the URL to connect to the console so I hope that shows a little bit about the ease that we've added in and the reduction in friction that we've added to make getting open shift in the cloud easier for you.

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That's all I've got. Thank you.

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