Scaling up an OpenShift cluster by adding additional physical nodes is a multi step approach. This demo will show how this process can be striped down to a one click process by leveraging infrastructure-as-code principles.
Having a Blade System like HPE Synergy, racking and cabling is not needed, but the firmware of the hosts to add to the cluster need to be configured. Within HPE OneView Web interface a server profile will be defined and deployed to the unused blade servers. As a second step you need to tell OpenShift to expand the cluster onto these newly available servers, normally by logging into the OpenShift Web interface and configuring the necessary changes.
In this Demonstration you will learn how Ansible Automation platform provides a one click approach. All manual interaction is removed and no tool switching is necessary. The demo also allows to scale the environment back down, which needs similar steps in the reverse order.
Solution Architect
Red Hat
