Product Documentation for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1

Starting with version 18.0, Red Hat OpenStack Platform is rebranded to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift.

Hardware requirements and recommendations for large deployments

A guide to creating and configuring a multi-cell overcloud

Using director to create and manage a Red Hat OpenStack Platform cloud

Edge and storage configuration for Red Hat OpenStack Platform

In-place upgrades from Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 to 17.1

Plan, deploy, and manage high availability in Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Validate deployments of Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Creating and restoring backups of the undercloud and the overcloud control plane nodes

Apply the latest bug fixes and security improvements to Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Migrating virtual machines to a Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment

Planning and configuring network functions virtualization (NFV) in Red Hat Openstack Platform

Customizing your core Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment for your environment and requirements.

Configuring and managing the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Compute service (nova) for creating instances

Installing and configuring the Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic) for Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS)

Good Practices, Compliance, and Security Hardening

All procedures are based on the latest maintenance release and may not apply to older releases.

Product overview

Package listing for Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Configuring routed spine-leaf networks using Red Hat OpenStack Platform director

Configuring FRRouting and the OVN BGP agent using director to achieve dynamic routing in Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Managing the OpenStack Networking service (neutron)

Configuring an overcloud to use IPv6 networking

Information about how to manage a domain name system (DNS) using the DNS service in Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Managing network traffic across the data plane using the Load-balancing service (octavia)

Migrate the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Networking service (neutron) from the ML2/OVS mechanism driver to the ML2/OVN mechanism driver

List of required ports and protocols

Configure and manage OpenStack Block Storage, Object Storage, and Shared File Systems services

Configure director to deploy and use a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster

Configuring the overcloud to use a standalone Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster

Deploy and use the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Block Storage (cinder) backup service

Deploy a custom, non-integrated, Block Storage back end in a Red Hat OpenStack Platform overcloud

Understand and configure Hyperconverged Infrastructure on the Red Hat OpenStack Platform overcloud

Configure users and keystone authentication

Use Active Directory or Red Hat Identity Management as an external authentication back end

Viewing and configuring the OpenStack Dashboard GUI

Create and manage images in Red Hat OpenStack Platform by using the Image service (glance)

Create and manage instances using the CLI

Configure Autoscaling in Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Configure high availability for Compute instances

Integrating the Key Manager service (barbican) with your OpenStack deployment.

Installing and deploying Service Telemetry Framework 1.5

Release details for Service Telemetry Framework 1.5

Tracking physical and virtual resources, and collecting metrics

Command-line clients for Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Configure Red Hat OpenStack Platform environments

Parameters for customizing the core template collection for a Red Hat OpenStack Platform overcloud