Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z Installation Guide

Introduction

Before you install an OpenShift cluster, you must understand some architectural components and how they interact with each other. In this chapter, we describe the nodes that are installed and configured during the OpenShift cluster installation process.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•1.1, “Overview” on page 2

•1.2, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS” on page 3

•1.3, “Red Hat OpenShift architecture” on page 3

•1.4, “Bootstrap host” on page 4

•1.5, “Control plane hosts” on page 4

•1.6, “Compute nodes” on page 5

•1.7, “Bastion ...