So, having a debate with colleagues. When you install Red Hat OpenShift you start at the RedHat.com website to install the BareMetal install and it monitors the install from there to tell you when done. Once complete you start logging into a Console that goes through your personal URL to see all the stats of the OS and to administer it. Is this install officially a hybrid model at that point that some info is being managed on RH servers and some on your local machine? Did they install all the HTML of the console to your local server or is that being served up from the RH Network?

I am arguing that this is a hybrid model where some of the stuff on the console is local and some is coming from RH but I am not sure.  Can anyone clarify this for me?

I know when I want to re-install a new instance I must go back to that RH page

Hybrid Cloud Console

And Archive off that install and do another. Curious also what good is an archived off instance as once its gone its gone right? You also see all your stats of your server form the above URL so its reading my server memory and cpu etc.. But is any of my RH functionality coming from the RH network to make this a hybrid model?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Hi David,

once You install OpenShift the console (and everything else as well) is served directly from Your local cluster. The only "thing" that is getting pulled from the internet are the container images. If You do not want to pull those directly from Red Hat (or other) servers You can mirror them into private image registry and have fully disconnected setup.

There is one component which reports some parameters and statistics back to Red Hat. It is called Insights Operator. Whatever You see in console.redhat.com is reported by this component, but it has nothing to do with the OpenShift console itself. You can even disable the Insights Operator and Telemetry by deleting part of the pull secret as described here: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/support/remote_health_monitoring/opting-out-of-remote-health-reporting.html

So, having a debate with colleagues. When you install Red Hat OpenShift you start at the RedHat.com website to install the BareMetal install and it monitors the install from there to tell you when done. Once complete you start logging into a Console that goes through your personal URL to see all the stats of the OS and to administer it. Is this install officially a hybrid model at that point that some info is being managed on RH servers and some on your local machine? Did they install all the HTML of the console to your local server or is that being served up from the RH Network?

I am arguing that this is a hybrid model where some of the stuff on the console is local and some is coming from RH but I am not sure.  Can anyone clarify this for me?

I know when I want to re-install a new instance I must go back to that RH page

Hybrid Cloud Console

And Archive off that install and do another. Curious also what good is an archived off instance as once its gone its gone right? You also see all your stats of your server form the above URL so its reading my server memory and cpu etc.. But is any of my RH functionality coming from the RH network to make this a hybrid model?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Witold,

Thanks for the response. Very interesting still intrigued why Red Hat calls it a Hybrid Cloud Console when you do log into the console.redhat.com.

Anyway, what do you know about the purpose of being forced to Archive off Cluster Installs and not being able to delete them once they are there in the console? I see no reason for an Archive, they can never be restored correct?

Thanks again,

Hi David,

once You install OpenShift the console (and everything else as well) is served directly from Your local cluster. The only "thing" that is getting pulled from the internet are the container images. If You do not want to pull those directly from Red Hat (or other) servers You can mirror them into private image registry and have fully disconnected setup.

There is one component which reports some parameters and statistics back to Red Hat. It is called Insights Operator. Whatever You see in console.redhat.com is reported by this component, but it has nothing to do with the OpenShift console itself. You can even disable the Insights Operator and Telemetry by deleting part of the pull secret as described here: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/support/remote_health_monitoring/opting-out-of-remote-health-reporting.html

So, having a debate with colleagues. When you install Red Hat OpenShift you start at the RedHat.com website to install the BareMetal install and it monitors the install from there to tell you when done. Once complete you start logging into a Console that goes through your personal URL to see all the stats of the OS and to administer it. Is this install officially a hybrid model at that point that some info is being managed on RH servers and some on your local machine? Did they install all the HTML of the console to your local server or is that being served up from the RH Network?

I am arguing that this is a hybrid model where some of the stuff on the console is local and some is coming from RH but I am not sure.  Can anyone clarify this for me?

I know when I want to re-install a new instance I must go back to that RH page

Hybrid Cloud Console

And Archive off that install and do another. Curious also what good is an archived off instance as once its gone its gone right? You also see all your stats of your server form the above URL so its reading my server memory and cpu etc.. But is any of my RH functionality coming from the RH network to make this a hybrid model?

Thanks in advance for any help,