Some of the advanced networking optimizations discussed in Chapter 10 are intended to be used with bare-metal deployments of OpenShift. Furthermore, some of the capabilities are now included in OpenShift 4.1.1 This chapter provides supplementary information that goes into the details of an installation of OpenShift 4.1 in bare-metal deployment using the User Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) mode that was discussed in Chapter 6.
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At the time of this writing, the UPI mode is still in beta, but it has been validated to work with bare-metal ...