An enterprise-class Kubernetes production platform for running Linux containers and virtual machines

Important! This marketplace listing is not meant for direct consumption by deploying a single virtual machine. DO NOT create a Virtual Machine from this offering directly. Please follow the instructions in the Getting Started section below.

What?

Red Hat® OpenShift® Kubernetes Engine is an entry-level solution that includes the core functionality of Red Hat OpenShift.

What's included?

• Administrator console
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system
• Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Capabilities

• Enterprise Kubernetes
  Red Hat OpenShift provides you with commercial support, upgrades and patches, and increased security for Kubernetes and Kubernetes-native applications, so you don’t have to do it all yourself.


• Over-the-air smart upgrades
  See what updates are available to your clusters and let Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine automatically handle dependencies and the update process.


• Administrator web console
  Developers can use the web browser-based web console to visualize, browse, and manage the contents of projects.


• Operator lifecycle manager
  Install, update, and manage the life cycle of all Kubernetes Operators and their associated services running across their clusters. It’s part of the Operator Framework, an open source toolkit to manage Kubernetes-native applications (Operators).


• Path to modernization with OpenShift Virtualization
  Run and manage applications in virtual machines (VMs) alongside containerized applications consistently on one platform with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

Do you need more than Kubernetes? Do you need an application platform that allows you to focus on building and modernizing your applications instead of having to piece together a platform yourself? Check out the more comprehensive Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus offerings.

Support

This offering comes with a Red Hat premium support subscription that includes direct access to Red Hat support engineers during business hours and 24x7 access to support engineers for high severity issues. To learn more about this support coverage and SLAs, please consult the OpenShift Enterprise Support Policy.

This offer is available to customers in EMEA with hourly pay-as-you-go pricing or 1 and 3 year VM Software Reservation options. Click here for North America and other select countries outside of EMEA.

Getting Started

1. Activate Red Hat support

You will need to activate your support subscription for this product. We have created a no cost Azure SaaS offering to help automate the support activation process. Please review the details in the Red Hat Subscription Support Registration listing overview and then subscribe to the offering.

2. Deploy the OpenShift cluster

Follow these installation instructions to create a self-managed OpenShift cluster in Azure https://access.redhat.com/articles/6484031.