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W. CabanArchitecting and Operating OpenShift Clustershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4985-7_2

2. High Availability

William Caban1 
(1)
Columbia, MD, USA
 

As we saw from Chapter 1, OpenShift Container Platform is comprised of multiple elements build on top of Kubernetes. When designing production environments, we should understand the high availability (HA) built into the different elements of the platform. Each one of the HA elements can be scaled independently.

The desired level of HA for each platform element and how a cluster will be scaled out over time may have a direct influence in the initial design considerations.

In this chapter, we will cover the HA configurations, what may be considered the most relevant elements of ...

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