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This October 2021 version of the Dell Technologies Red Hat? OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Reference Architecture for Telecom includes the following new features:
For more information, see the Dell Technologies – Red Hat® OpenShift® Reference Architecture for Telecom 4.6 Release Notes at the Dell Technologies Solutions Info Hub for Communication Service Providers.
Dell Technologies – Red Hat OpenShift Reference Architecture for Telecom is a flexible infrastructure that has been designed, optimized, and validated for an OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 on-premises bare-metal deployment. The emphasis of the reference architecture is on running telecom-specific workloads on both containers and virtual machines (VMs) that are managed by OpenShift Container Platform.
The Reference Architecture provides:
The Reference Architecture includes the following components:
The reference architecture documentation set consists of:
The documents are available online at the Red Hat section of the Dell Technologies Solutions Info Hub for Communication Service Providers.
Note: While you can rely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security and container technologies to prevent intrusions and protect your data, some security vulnerabilities might persist. For information about security vulnerabilities in OpenShift Container Platform, see OCP Errata. For a general listing of Red Hat vulnerabilities, see the Red Hat Security Home Page.
OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 consists of many open-source components that have been carefully integrated to provide a consistently dependable platform on which you can develop and deploy scalable containerized applications. OpenShift Container Platform provides great flexibility for accommodating platform deployment preferences. For more information, see OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Documentation.
Kubernetes container orchestration software is at the heart of OpenShift Container Platform. For more information, see What Kubernetes is.