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Virtualization Starter Kit

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Virtualization Starter Kit

Background

Organizations are interested in accelerating their deployment speeds and improving delivery quality in their Edge environments, where many devices may not fully or even partially embrace the GitOps philosophy.

This pattern uses OpenShift Virtualization (the productization of Kubevirt) to host the VMs.

Solution elements

  • How to use a GitOps approach to manage virtual machines, either in public clouds (limited to AWS for technical reasons) or on-prem OpenShift installations
  • A standardized environment with two running VMs to start exploring Virtualization on OpenShift with High Availability features

Red Hat Technologies

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (Kubernetes)
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD)
  • OpenShift Virtualization (Kubevirt)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat OpenShift Node Health Check Operator
  • Red Hat OpenShift Self Node Remediation Operator
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization

Other Technologies this Pattern Uses

  • Hashicorp Vault
  • External Secrets Operator

Architecture

Similar to other patterns, this pattern starts with a central management hub, which hosts OCP-Virt and ODF and hosts the VMs.

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Validated Patterns

Validated Patterns are an evolution of how you deploy applications in a hybrid cloud. With a pattern, you can automatically deploy a full application stack through a GitOps-based framework. With this framework, you can create business-centric solutions while maintaining a level of Continuous Integration (CI) over your application.