Practical OpenShift 4 Installation Troubleshooting

Practical OpenShift 4 Installation Troubleshooting

JR Morgan

1 minute read

There’s a lot of great documentation on running, administering, consuming, and troubleshooting OpenShift 4, but the installation process is still a bit vague for some admins, and even more obscure if failures are encountered. I recently stepped through general installation troubleshooting for a failed OpenShift 4.6.8 deployment which hit this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895024 - The core issue relates to low entropy on my VMs, but this bug was repeatable and offered a…

OpenShift 4 IPI on vSphere in less than 5 minutes

Grab your popcorn and watch an OpenShift 4 IPI deployment on vSphere in less than 5 minutes!

JR Morgan

1 minute read

I’ve posted about OpenShift 4 on vSphere before, but with the release of OCP 4.5.z things have gotten much, much easier. While it certainly takes more than 5 mintues to deploy all components, I’ve trimmed an asciinema capture to demonstrate just how easy installation of OpenShift 4.5 on vSphere has become.