The Enterprise Architect's Guide to OpenShift
Download Managing OpenShift/Kubernetes Environments at Scale, a 24-page blueprint validated by Li9 and Red Hat.
24 Pages
Production-Ready
Executive Summary
For IT leaders, the decision to standardize on Red Hat OpenShift is a strategic investment in agility and innovation. However, the platform's power comes with significant complexity. The critical challenge is not what technology to use, but how to implement and operate it effectively at enterprise scale.
Li9 is a recognized elite Red Hat & IBM Partner with experience providing pre-architected, battle-tested operational frameworks built entirely upon Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation.
Our service transforms your investment in Red Hat's powerful tools, including OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, Advanced Cluster Management (ACM), and Advanced Cluster Security (ACS), into a cohesive, secure, and scalable production-ready platform.
The Li9 Advantage: Validated Expertise
Li9 is home to some of the world's highest-certified Red Hat architects, ensuring our solutions are built on a foundation of proven best practices and deep product knowledge.
By partnering with Li9, you are leveraging an elite team and a pre-integrated solution that allows you to bypass years of potential trial-and-error, freeing your internal platform engineering teams to focus on innovation and business-specific challenges.
Build It Yourself
Multi-year, high-risk effort designing and building a custom management framework with significant internal resources.
Partner with Li9
Adopt a proven, pre-built solution to accelerate time-to-market and de-risk your OpenShift adoption.
Peek Inside the Blueprint
This guide contains the exact architectural patterns we use to build production fleets.
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The Automation Factory
Learn how to build an Ansible-driven provisioning engine that handles IPAM, DNS, and Load Balancers automatically.
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Fleet Management at Scale
Discover how to use ArgoCD ApplicationSets to template configurations across 50+ clusters without drift.
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Zero-Trust Secrets
See the reference architecture for injecting secrets from Vault/AWS directly into clusters at runtime using External Secrets Operator.
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Production Day 2
Full architectural diagrams for OpenShift Virtualization, OADP Backup pipelines, and Observability stacks.
Contents
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Table of Contents
What You'll Read
- 1Executive Summary & Strategy
- 2Day 0/1/2 Operations Model
- 3Cluster Provisioning Automation (Ansible & ACM)
- 4GitOps Overview & ArgoCD Architecture
- 5Managing Sensitive Data (External Secrets)
- 6Code Promotion Strategy (Dev → UAT → Prod)
- 7GitOps & ACM Integration Patterns
- 8Appendix: Implementation Roadmap
Project Deliverables
What You Can Build
1Phase 1: Foundation
- Infrastructure Discovery
- Architecture Design
- Network Dependency Resolution
2Phase 2: Automation Factory
- Management Cluster Setup (ACM/AAP)
- Automated DNS/IPAM Modules
- One-Touch Provisioning Pipeline
3Phase 3: GitOps & Security
- ArgoCD "App of Apps"
- Vault Integration
- OpenShift Virtualization Setup
- RBAC/OAuth Policy Engine
4Phase 4: Operational Readiness
- OADP Backup Pipelines
- Disaster Recovery Playbooks
- Observability Stack
- Knowledge Transfer