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[OpenShift 101] How to Deploy
OKD on AWS
by
Sreekar Achanta

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About Me:
❖ Site Reliability Engineer @ Axelerant Technologies.
❖ Over 9+ years of experience in IT.
❖ Loves playing volleyball, Go on long drives and Play with my dog
Kutty.
❖ Currently working on Openshift, Gitlab CI, Ansible and
Kubernetes.
❖ Interested in contributing to Kubernetes Project.
❖ AWS Community Builder.
❖ Loves Listening to Audiobooks while cleaning my car.
❖ AWS Solution Architect and Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
www.linkedin.com/in/sreekarachanta
Sreekar Achanta

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./openshift-install create cluster --dir=<installation_directory> --log-level=info
How to install OKD 4.X?

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Any Questions?

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Just Kidding Folks

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What are Container Orchestration Engines (COEs)?
All about managing the life cycles of containers, especially in large, dynamic
environments.

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COEs in the market

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What is OpenShift?

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Alright, What is OKD?

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Prerequisites
AWS account with Administrator privileges and programmatic
access to AWS.
SSH keys that will be used to copy to the nodes during
cluster setup.
TLS certificates.
Authentication.
Valid Hosted zone in Route53.
EFS volumes created if you want to host
persistent volumes(Optional).

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Installing OKD on AWS
1. Quick install
2. Custom Install

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Our Experience Running OKD and
issues

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References:
https://www.openshift.com/blog/enterprise-kubernetes-with-openshift-part-one
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openshift-and-kubernetes-whats-difference
Custom Install
https://docs.okd.io/latest/installing/installing_aws/installing-aws-customizations.html
Quick install
https://docs.okd.io/latest/installing/installing_aws/installing-aws-default.html
Enable Auto Scaling in OKD.
https://docs.okd.io/latest/machine_management/applying-autoscaling.html

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Q & A

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