Learn more about OpenShift Container Platform

To better use OpenShift Container Platform, you should first learn about and better understand how OpenShift Container Platform functions.

You can use the following sections to find content to help you learn about OpenShift Container Platform.

Learning and support

Learn about OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
What’s new in OpenShift Container Platform	OpenShift blog
OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy	OpenShift Container Platform life cycle
OpenShift Interactive Learning Portal	OpenShift Knowledgebase articles
Getting Support	Gathering data about your cluster

Architecture

Learn about OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
Enterprise Kubernetes with OpenShift	Tested platforms
Architecture	Security and compliance
Networking	OVN-Kubernetes architecture
Backup and restore	Restoring to an earlier cluster state

Installation

Explore the following OpenShift Container Platform installation tasks:

Learn about installation on OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
OpenShift Container Platform installation overview	Selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users
Installing a cluster in FIPS mode	About FIPS compliance

Other cluster installer tasks

Learn about other installer tasks on OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
Troubleshooting installation issues	Validating an installation
Install Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation	image mode for OpenShift

Install a cluster in a restricted network

Learn about installing in a restricted network	Optional additional resources
About disconnected installation mirroring	If your cluster uses user-provisioned infrastructure, and the cluster does not have full access to the internet, you must mirror the OpenShift Container Platform installation images. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud vSphere IBM Cloud(R) IBM Z(R) and IBM(R) LinuxONE IBM Power(R) bare metal

Install a cluster in an existing network

Learn about installing in a restricted network	Optional additional resources
If you use an existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud or an existing VNet on Microsoft Azure, you can install a cluster	Installing a cluster on Google Cloud into a shared VPC

Cluster administration

Learn about OpenShift Container Platform cluster activities	Optional additional resources
Understand OpenShift Container Platform management	Machine API Operators etcd
Enable cluster capabilities	Optional cluster capabilities in OpenShift Container Platform 4.22

Managing cluster components

Learn about managing cluster components	Optional additional resources
Manage compute and control plane machines with machine sets	Deploy machine health checks
Apply autoscaling to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster	Including pod priority in pod scheduling decisions
Manage container registries	Red Hat Quay
Manage users and groups	Impersonating the system:admin user
Manage authentication	Supported identity providers
Manage Ingress, API server, and Service certificates	Network security
Manage networking	Cluster Network Operator Multiple network interfaces Network policy
Manage Operators	Creating applications from installed Operators

Changing cluster components

Learn more about changing cluster components	Optional additional resources
Introduction to OpenShift updates	Updating a cluster using the web console Updating using the CLI Using the OpenShift Update Service in a disconnected environment
Use custom resource definitions (CRDs) to modify the cluster	Create a CRD Manage resources from CRDs
Set resource quotas	Resource quotas across multiple projects
Prune and reclaim resources	Performing advanced builds
Scale and tune clusters	OpenShift Container Platform scalability and performance

Observe a cluster

Learn about OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
Release notes for the Red Hat OpenShift Distributed Tracing Platform	Red Hat OpenShift Distributed Tracing Platform
Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry	Receiving telemetry data from multiple clusters
About Network Observability	Using metrics with dashboards and alerts Observing the network traffic from the Traffic flows view
About OpenShift Container Platform monitoring	Remote health monitoring Power monitoring for Red Hat OpenShift (Technology Preview)

Storage activities

Learn about OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
Storage types	Persistent storage Ephemeral storage

Application Site Reliability Engineer (App SRE)

Learn about OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
Building applications overview	Projects
Operators	Cluster Operator reference

Developing applications

OpenShift Container Platform is a platform for developing and deploying containerized applications. Read the following OpenShift Container Platform documentation, so that you can better understand OpenShift Container Platform functions:

Learn about application development in OpenShift Container Platform	Optional additional resources
Getting started with OpenShift for developers (interactive tutorial)	Understanding OpenShift Container Platform development Working with projects Create deployments
Red Hat Developers site	Understanding image builds
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (formerly Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces)	Operators
Create container images	Managing images overview
odo	Developer-focused CLI
Viewing application composition using the Topology view	Exporting applications
Understanding OpenShift Pipelines	Create CI/CD Pipelines
Configuring an OpenShift cluster by deploying an application with cluster configurations	Controlling pod placement using node taints Creating infrastructure machine sets

Hosted control planes

Learn about hosted control planes	Optional additional resources
Hosted control planes overview	Versioning for hosted control planes
Preparing to deploy	Requirements for hosted control planes Sizing guidance for hosted control planes Overriding resource utilization measurements Installing the hosted control planes command-line interface Distributing hosted cluster workloads Enabling or disabling the hosted control planes feature
Deploying hosted control planes	Deploying hosted control planes on OpenShift Virtualization Deploying hosted control planes on AWS Deploying hosted control planes on bare metal Deploying hosted control planes on non-bare-metal agent machines Deploying hosted control planes on IBM Z Deploying hosted control planes on IBM Power
Deploying hosted control planes in a disconnected environment	Deploying hosted control planes on bare metal in a disconnected environment Deploying hosted control planes on OpenShift Virtualization in a disconnected environment
Troubleshooting hosted control planes	Gathering information to troubleshoot hosted control planes