The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is built around a core of containers run by the Docker container runtime. Orchestration and management are provided by Kubernetes and powered by Intel Xeon Gold processors and solid-state drives (SSDs). Dell EMC PowerEdge servers deliver compute and storage resources for the application environment and Dell EMC Networking switches provide connectivity between nodes and to external networks.

Hardware components

This Dell EMC Ready Architecture requires 15 server nodes and includes the following hardware:

• 11 Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers that are distributed among three master nodes, three infrastructure nodes, four application nodes, and one bastion node
• 4 Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers that are used as storage nodes
• 2 Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON or S5232F-ON switches that are used as the Top-of-Rack (ToR) data switches
• 1 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON switch that is used as a management switch