Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 Support Matrix
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management) provides the tools and capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site reliability engineers face as they work across a range of environments, including multiple datacenters, private clouds, and public clouds that run Kubernetes clusters.
Access the documentation at Product Documentation for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes.
Using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management), you can:
- Easily provision Kubernetes clusters and offer complete cluster lifecycle management (create, upgrade, destroy) from a single console. Discover and onboard existing clusters into a consistent management domain.
- Use policies to automatically configure and maintain consistency of security controls required by industry or self-imposed corporate standards.
- Deploy and maintain day 2 operations of business applications distributed across your cluster landscape.
Supported browsers
The following table outlines the browsers that are supported for viewing the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management web user interface.
Browser support is divided into tiers:
- Tier 1: Browser and operating system combinations that are fully tested and fully supported. Red Hat Engineering is committed to fixing issues with browsers on this tier.
- Tier 2: Browser and operating system combinations that are partially tested, and are likely to work. Limited support is provided for this tier. Red Hat Engineering will attempt to fix issues with browsers on this tier.
- Tier 3: Browser and operating system combinations that are not tested, but may work. Minimal support is provided for this tier. Red Hat Engineering will attempt to fix only minor issues with browsers on this tier.
| Support Tier | Browser |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Google Chrome - Chrome for Business; Mozilla Firefox Version 82.0.2 (64-bit) |
| Tier 2 | Microsoft Internet Explorer Edge - Version 44 and later (Windows), Version 81 (Official build) (64-bit) (MacOS) |
| Tier 3 | Safari on MacOS (Mojave) - Version 14.0 |
Supported platforms for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management has two main components:
- A server component called the “hub” where the management tools and user interface are running
- A client component that is installed on all Kubernetes clusters that will be managed by the “hub”
- Note: You do not have to use a dedicated cluster for your hub cluster.
| Platform | Supported for hub | Supported for management |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.200, and later 3.11.x releases |  |  |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.0 EUS, and later 4.6.x releases | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.0 EUS, and later 4.8.x releases | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.0, and later 4.9.x releases | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.0, and later 4.10.x releases | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Cloud (ROKS) | | |
| Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on VMware vSphere | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Red Hat OpenStack | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Power Systems | | |
| New Microsoft Azure Government | | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine | | |
| Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) (Kubernetes 1.21, and later) | | |
| Google Kubernetes Engine (Google GKE) (Kubernetes 1.22.2, and later) | | |
| IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (Kubernetes 1.22.3, and later) | | |
| Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (Microsoft AKS) (Kubernetes 1.22.2, and later) | | |
| New Amazon EKS Distro version 1.19.8-EKS-1-19-4 (Technology Preview) | | |
For product lifecycle information for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, see Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is not supported on OpenShift Container Platform versions that have reached their end-of-life status.
Note: As the pace of change in public cloud features is high, constantly changing and evolving, the compatibility for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is correct at GA of the product. Best effort basis during errata cycle for public cloud vendors introduced breaking changes (intended or unintended) to existing functionality. Any other changes or additions would be considered as a Request For Enhancement (RFE), which is evaluated for potential inclusion in future releases. An RFE can be requested using standard support mechanisms.
For Kubernetes services, see Public Cloud Kubernetes support statement.
Feature support
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management allows you to perform actions on the clusters that it manages, and provides features for interacting with and providing information about those clusters. This section outlines the status of features support that you can perform on clusters.
Observability
| Features | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine | IBM Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Services | Azure Red Hat OpenShift | Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated | Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS | Amazon EKS | Google GKE | IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service | Microsoft AKS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboard overview | | | | | | | | | | |
| Filtering by provider, region, condition, and Kubernetes type | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dynamic search across Kubernetes | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cluster Health Monitoring | | | | | | | | | | |
| Application topology view | | | | | | | | | | |
| New Cluster SLOs and Cluster Health Grafana dashboard (Technology Preview) | | | | | | | | | | |
| CCX Insights | | | | | | | | | | |
Cluster Lifecycle Management
| Features | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine | IBM Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Services | Azure Red Hat OpenShift | Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated | Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS | Amazon EKS | Google GKE | IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service | Microsoft AKS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cluster list view | | | | | | | | | | |
| Import existing cluster | | | | | | | | | | |
| Create a cluster | | | | | | | | | | |
| Upgrade a cluster | | | | | | | | | | |
| Destroy a cluster | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ansible integration during cluster creation and upgrade using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (requires Ansible Automation Platform) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Integrate Submariner for direct pod connections within a cluster set (Technology Preview) | Will be automatically configured on AWS and GCP infrastructures, but must be prepared manually for other cloud providers. | | (prepare the Submariner environment manually) | | (prepare the Submariner environment manually) | | | | | |
| Scale clusters (Clusters created with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management only) (Technology Preview) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Discover unmanaged OpenShift Container Platform clusters at cloud.redhat.com for importing (Clusters must have telemetry enabled with console.redhat.com) (Technology Preview) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cluster hibernation (Technology Preview) | On AWS, GCP, Azure only | On AWS, GCP, Azure only | | | | | | | | |
| ClusterPools (Technology Preview) | On AWS, GCP, Azure only | On AWS, GCP, Azure only | | | | | | | | |
Supported providers for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster creation
| Provider | Supported |
|---|---|
| Amazon Web Service | |
| Google Cloud Platform | |
| Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Government | |
| Bare metal | |
| VMware vSphere (Versions supported by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform) | |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform (Versions supported by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform) | |
| New Centrally managed on-premises provider | |
Application Lifecycle Management
| Features | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine | IBM Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Services | Azure Red Hat OpenShift | Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated | Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS | Amazon EKS | Google GKE | IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service | Microsoft AKS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansible integration (requires Ansible Automation Platform) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Application list view | | | | | | | | | | |
| Topology view: Cluster to application relationship to resources | | | | | | | | | | |
| Channel and subscription deployment from CI/CD | | | | | | | | | | |
| Placement by labels and rules across cluster | | | | | | | | | | |
| Subscriptions activated at specific time windows | | | | | | | | | | |
| View applications from Red Hat OpenShift GitOps | | | | | | | | | | |
| Register managed clusters to Red Hat OpenShift GitOps to deploy applications | | | | | | | | | | |
| New Application sets (Technology preview) | | | | | | | | | | |
Risk and compliance
| Features | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine | IBM Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Services | Azure Red Hat OpenShift | Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated | Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS | Amazon EKS | Google GKE | IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service | Microsoft AKS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboard overview with policies and cluster violations | | | | | | | | | | |
| Policies list view | | | | | | | | | | |
| Pre-created policies following security standards: NIST CSF, PCI | | | | | | | | | | |
| Governance across clusters | | | | | | | | | | |
| Leverage Policy to configure Kubernetes resources | | | | | | | | | | |
| Deploy operators with Policy | | | | | | | | | | |
| Remediation with enforcement | | | | | | | | | | |
| New Policy generator plugin (only supported for the GitOps flow) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Install Gatekeeper operator with an operator policy (Gatekeeper Operator must be at version 0.2.0, or later, before upgrading Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to version 4.9) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Install the compliance operator with an operator policy | | | | | | | | | | |
| Remediation with enforcement using Ansible integration (requires Ansible Automation Platform) | | | | | | | | | | |
Support matrixes for other versions of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
The following list contains links to the support matrix documents of other releases of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management: