Red Hat Quay on IBM Power
Red Hat Quay is a distributed, highly available, security-focused, and scalable private image registry platform that enables you to build, organize, distribute, and deploy containers for your enterprise. It provides a single and resilient content repository for delivering containerized software to development and production across Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters.
Now, Red Hat Quay is available on IBM Power with version 3.10. Read the official Red Hat Quay 3.10 blog and for more information visit the Red Hat Quay Documentation page.
Features
Red Hat Quay includes the following features and benefits:
- Granular security management
- Fast and robust at any scale
- High-velocity CI/CD
- Automated installation and updates
- Enterprise authentication and team-based access control
- OpenShift Container Platform integration
For information on additional features related to the operator please visit the Red Hat Quay operator features for version 3.10.
How to Install
Red Hat Quay is available as a standalone component or as an Operator on the OpenShift Container Platform.
Operator on OpenShift Container Platform
The Red Hat Quay Operator manages an opinionated deployment of Red Hat Quay which has a significant number of dependencies also known as components. By default all the components are managed, you can use them as unmanaged also. For example, components such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or object storage that you want to use with Red Hat Quay can be configured.
Red Hat Quay 3.10 is supported on OpenShift 4.14. To get started with OpenShift, you can refer to Install on IBM Power and Install on IBM Power Virtual Server.
Please visit Deploying the Red Hat Quay Operator on OpenShift Container Platform for detailed information.
StandAlone HA
You can also deploy a highly available, enterprise-quality Red Hat Quay. It can be achieved using any proxy service (eg: haproxy) and a number of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems sharing the tasks required for running Red Hat Quay services. Podman is required for creating and deploying containers.
Please visit Deploy Red Hat Quay - High Availability for detailed information.
Known limitation
Except for mirror registry and geo-replication features, you can run Red Hat Quay on IBM Power using version 3.10. These features are expected to be supported in future releases of Red Hat Quay for IBM Power.
For specifically tested configurations, refer to Quay Enterprise 3.x Tested Integrations
Summary
Red Hat Quay is an enterprise-quality registry for building, securing, and serving container images. This blog describes Red Hat Quay and its features that support IBM Power. It also mentions installing it on the OpenShift cluster running on IBM Power and a standalone enterprise setup.