Red Hat OpenShift is the leading hybrid cloud platform powered by Kubernetes, designed to streamline the process of developing, modernizing, and managing applications across public cloud, on-premises, hybrid cloud, and edge environments. For organizations deploying stateful applications, integrating with a robust data services platform like Portworx® by Pure Storage® offers critical features such as replication, high availability, security, disaster recovery, and data protection.
This reference architecture provides a validated model for deploying Portworx on Red Hat OpenShift running on bare metal servers, ensuring seamless storage management and improved modernization efforts.
This reference architecture has three technical sections:
- Planning and architecture overview: This section presents the high-level architecture overview on how Portworx will be deployed on Red Hat OpenShift. It discusses the requirements related to OpenShift MachineSets for storage and storageless nodes and also physical disk and network configuration recommendations.
- Design considerations: This section provides more detailed requirements and recommendations that must be considered during the design phase. It covers Red Hat OpenShift requirements, networking, capacity planning, high availability, resource, and performance considerations, security, and monitoring.
- Operations considerations: This section covers operational tasks such as installation methods, upgrades, data protection, scaling, logging, and monitoring considerations. It also discusses considerations for running stateful containerized applications in a production environment.