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W. CabanArchitecting and Operating OpenShift Clustershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4985-7_3

3. Networking

William Caban1 
(1)
Columbia, MD, USA
 

Chapter 2 covers how high availability is achieved for the core components of the platform. The communication for specific control plane components like the synchronization of the etcd database, external connections to the OpenShift Console (in OCP 3.11.x), the communication from the Kubelet to the Kubernetes APIs, and external connections to the cluster’s Kubernetes API goes directly to Master’s Nodes IPs. Any other intercommunication among components in the cluster uses the OpenShift Networking service.

When considering the OpenShift Networking as a whole, there are the OpenShift ...

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