Workloads allowed on infrastructure nodes without incurring extra subscription costs in OpenShift 4

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • 4
  • Infrastructure nodes

Issue

  • Does Infrastructure nodes be excluded from billing if some third-party agents kind daemonsets for logs and metrics are deployed on it?
  • Are Third-party management and monitoring products allowed to be deployed on the infrastructure nodes without incurring the cost?
  • What are the qualifying supporting components eligible to be run on InfraStructure nodes?

Resolution

To qualify as an infrastructure node and use the included entitlement, only components that are supporting the cluster, and not part of an end-user application, may be running on those instances.

For additional information, refer to the This content is not included.Red Hat OpenShift control plane and infrastructure nodes section in the Self-managed Red Hat OpenShift subscription guide, and to the OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure components section in the official OpenShift documentation.

Root Cause

To qualify as an infrastructure node and use the included entitlement, only components that are supporting the cluster, and not part of an end-user application, may be running on those instances.

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