OpenShift Upgrades Made Simple
Some great guidance from a fellow IBM CSM to help make OpenShift upgrades more understandable
I am a CSM and AI architect with IBM, and I have been helping a lot of my customers with their AI strategy and vision over the past few years. As IBM begins to deploy AI capabilities (like watsonx) on top of OpenShift, allowing our customers to deploy AI capabilities on their infrastructure of choice, I am finding myself get pulled into more discussions about OpenShift. I recently got into a conversation with a co-worker, Issac Zavala, who talked to me about a recent OpenShift upgrade that he was a part of.
He had a recent upgrade with a customer who was upgrading their OpenShift cluster to the latest version. As part of his preparation for this, he found Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform Update Graphing tool. The tool was incredibly insightful and provided a lot of the essential information that is needed for a successful upgrade. It provided details of an open bug that might have caused the production cluster to possibly lose data.
Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform Update Graphing tool provides a clear visual representation of available updates. This allows an administrator to see which versions are compatible with their current deployments. The graphical interface makes it simple to visualize the path that you need to take to get to the desired OpenShift version.
Another benefit of this tool is its ability to reduce some of the risk associated with upgrading to a newer version. The tool maps the safest and most reliable upgrade paths to minimize issues that could potentially disrupt uptime. In the migration path, open bugs are highlighted for each version. This was a key feature for my friend, as he was not aware of the open bug that would have exposed his environment to a situation that could have caused it to lose data. With this tool, it was easy to see the open issues for each version — giving his customer the ability to make informed decisions about their migration path.
