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Show / Hide Table of Contents UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift Efficiently refactor, rearchitect or build new portable cloud native applications

As a developer-focused Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift helps to increase the agility and efficiency of your software development lifecycle – giving you the tools you need to adopt DevOps best practice. By divorcing development and application delivery from infrastructure, you can start to move your IT teams up the technology stack and start to focus on longer-term business value and strategic projects.

Combining our secure and sovereign cloud with Red Hat's award-winning open source container platform, you can efficiently progress your modernisation journey from software to services, through to delivering innovative digital services and cloud-native applications. Let's get started! For a general product overview, see the Service Definition. If you need more in-depth product details, see the Service Scope.

The Getting Started Guide provides an overview of the functionality available with UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift and introduces some of the key concepts and tasks, including the different ways to interact with the service.

Key topics Once you understand the basics of UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift, take a look at the articles listed below to get an idea of what else you can do.

Managing your environment

Working with networks

Backup and recovery

Build an OpenShift application from a private GitHub repo

Expand OpenShift persistent volumes

Lifecycle and patch management

Making the most of your UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift trial

Scale an OpenShift v4 cluster

Supported customer update strategy for version 4 clusters

Considerations when scaling an OpenShift cluster (v3.x)

Use NetworkPolicy objects in OpenShift v4

Deploying an application into OpenShift Service Mesh (v4.x)

DNS zone forwarding in OpenShift clusters (v4.x)

Community network proxy configuration (v3.x)

Customise the router error page (v3.x)

Expose non-http services externally (v3.x)

Permit outbound internet access in deployments with government community network connectivity (v3.x)

Publish application routes to multiple external networks (v3.x)

Use NetworkPolicy objects (v3.x)

DNS zone forwarding in OpenShift clusters (v3.x)

Monitor your OpenShift cluster

Obtain usage metrics for OpenShift capacity management (v3.x)

Use the Hawkular Metrics API (v3.x)

View proxy logs in a multi-network OpenShift cluster (v3.x)

View your router logs (v3.x)

Custom dashboards provided with aggregated logging Kibana (v3.x)

OpenShift integrated cluster monitoring (v3.x)

Monitoring and logging

Security

Back up and restore container directories and databases

Back up, restore and migrate OpenShift resources (v3.x)

Disable weak cipher suites and enable HSTS

Manage OpenShift access

Restrict access to OpenShift routes by IP address

Security best practices (v3.x)

Want to know more? Find answers to common questions in our UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift FAQ. Use the table of contents on the left to browse all UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift articles or use the search box at the top to search the whole Knowledge Centre.

For more information about UKCloud and how we work, browse our website.

See it in action Evolution of digital workloads

What are containers?

How to buy The UKCloud Pricing Guide lists all our product pricing. For examples of how pricing works for UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift, take a look at our Pricing information article.

To buy UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift:

If you're already a UKCloud customer

Raise a Service Request, contact your Service Delivery Manager or email [email protected]

If you're a new UKCloud customer

Additional options To get the most out of our platform, see below for some additional options and products you might want to consider using with UKCloud for Red Hat OpenShift (additional charges apply).

Product options

Complementary products

Additional Control Plane Nodes. An operational cluster requires a minimum of three Control Plane Nodes. Depending on your workloads or solution, you may need more.

Additional Infrastructure Nodes. Infrastructure Nodes are not mandatory, but we recommend a minimum of two to provide integrated cluster services. You may want more if you require additional services.

Additional Application Nodes. You need at least one Application Node to run your application, however we recommend a minimum of two nodes for resilience. You may need more for duplicated or new applications.

Registry storage. The OpenShift image registry persistent storage is hosted on UKCloud Cloud Storage. Tier 1 storage. Improved performance for workloads requiring higher disk throughput and IOPS.

Managed IT Operations. Reduce the amount of time spent on managing your IT infrastructure.

Security Operations Service. People, processes and tooling to assist with cyber monitoring capabilities.

Professional Services. Help with solution design and digitisation projects.

Private Cloud. For workloads that require custom configurations, such as large instances, or complex licensing requirements.

Cloud Storage. Cost effective unstructured object storage for data archive.

If you want to find out more about any of these options or products, contact your Service Delivery Manager or email [email protected]

Why UKCloud? The right cloud for every platform. Modernise legacy workloads across the board by rehosting traditional systems with UKCloud for VMware or exploring new and emerging technologies with OpenShift. We can help you build a cloud specific to your needs.

An award-winning customer experience. The customer sits at the heart of everything we do. Whether that's through our 24/7 support function – a service we provide at no extra charge – or by giving every single one of our customers a dedicated Service Delivery Manager.

Dedicated to the public sector. From our unique assurance and connectivity options to the people we employ – everything we do comes back to our mission to help public sector organisations deliver better digital services at a lower cost.

Uncompromising security and integrity. Our UK-based data centres help protect your organisation from regulations such as GDPR, whilst our unique assurance and connectivity options enable you to move your most secure and sensitive systems to the cloud.

Champions of innovation. We've partnered with over 300 specialist organisations who have built their pioneering digital services on top of our government-grade infrastructure. From AI to RPA, our partner ecosystem has you covered.

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Get in touch We want to know what you think. If you have an idea for how we could improve any of our services, send an email to [email protected].

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