Red Hat OpenShift Cluster with Persistent Storage

Expert design and implementation service to deliver Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in a Public Cloud, Virtualization Platform, or on Bare Metal. The solution comes with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as a persistent storage implementation for OpenShift that allows for running both stateless and stateful applications.

The service allows developers and IT organizations to rapidly adopt enterprise-grade Kubernetes application development and deployment so they can focus on what matters most, their applications.

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Highlights

• OpenShift cluster delivery on your choice of infrastructure
• Get up and running with OpenShift in an automated manner

Flexibility

• Run stateful and stateless applications
• Service supports OpenShift deployment in AWS/ GCP/ Azure/ VMware/ RHEV and on bare metal

Outcomes

• A ready-to-go OpenShift cluster deployed on your choice for the underlying infrastructure
• Fully integrated container-native persistent storage based on OpenShift Data Foundation

Red Hat Ansible Automation Development

Ansible automation development service that reduces time spent on routine task implementation and reduces risks of human mistakes using Ansible Automation. The service may work with different automation areas including but not limited to workflow creation, infrastructure as code, confirmation management, application delivery, and testing. The service produces Ansible-based automation that you may apply against any services in the scope of the service.

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Highlights

• SRE team prepares your services to onboard automation, writes ansible playbooks, and roles, connects inventories, integrates services, configures pre-prod and prod deployments
• Automation services onboarding assistance by our SRE team

Flexibility

• Any timezone
• Support on-prem, cloud
• infrastructures and containerized services
• Linux/Unix/Windows/FreeBSD are supported server operating systems

Outcomes

• Ansible based automation (playbooks, roles, and modules) to automate your routine tasks
• Managed infrastructure as a code, repeatable, manageable, and scalable

GitLab DevOps High Availability Solution

Li9 Designs and implements a highly available GitLab environment that provides customers the ability to collaboratively plan, build, secure, and deploy software as a complete DevOps Solution. Li9 can deploy GitLab on Public or Private clouds. Azure/GKE/AWS/Vmware infrastructures are supported platforms.

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Highlights

• All-in-one source code control and DevOps solution
• Standardization of application development and delivery
• Ability to the seamless delivery application to the container platform
• High availability for all the key components

Flexibility

• Work with the Li9 Solution Technology team to implement according to your schedule
• The service delivery takes only three weeks

Outcomes

• Highly available GitLab, all its features are available
• Customer IT staff have skills to efficiently manage GitLab

GitLab intro with Hands-on Training

Hands-on training on basic GitLab SaaS features. The training includes a GitLab overview, hands-on introduction to GitLab basic configuration, CI/CD pipelines, some Premium, and Ultimate features, and real-world GitLab implementation examples. The training does not require any GitLab knowledge.

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Highlights

• Introduction to GitLab features
• GitLab hands-on training on basic features

Flexibility

• Up to 8 students
• 2 x 4 Hour Classes
• Using your GitLab SaaS instance

Outcomes

• Understanding basic GitLab functionality
• Hands-on exercises of using GitLab SaaS
• You will be able to start using your GitLab Immediately

SuperMicro OpenShift Turn-Key Compact Cluster Solution

Li9, Supermicro, and Red Hat have partnered to develop an integrated best-in-class Kubernetes Solution. It includes Red Hat OpenShift with Data Foundation for persistent storage and is integrated with the high-value, high-performance, and high-availability Supermicro Server Platform. This compact solution gives customers a small-footprint solution that is optimized, tested, and certified for OpenShift with persistent storage. It provides customers with a low cost of entry into a hardened, production-ready Kubernetes environment.

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Highlights

• Li9 will provide a sample database application implemented to demonstrate key OpenShift features in a customer’s environment.
• This solution leverages OpenShift’s ability to run the same container applications in Public Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud, or on Bare-Metal, creating a flexible cloud strategy.
• OpenShift and Supermicro provide a fully redundant, hot-pluggable environment server configuration and include a Spare OpenShift Node.

Flexibility

• Work with the Li9 Solution Technology team to implement according to your schedule
• Complete architecture, installation, and implementation of a production-ready, high-availability, high-performance, and secure OpenShift Kubernetes solution in a customer’s environment within 3 weeks.

Outcomes

• Customer IT staff will have the skills to efficiently manage Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform through knowledge transfer, automation, and process documentation.

Red Hat Ansible Network Automation

Ansible automation development service that reduces time spent on network device initial provisioning, configuration, and routine tasks. The service produces Ansible-based automation to work with your network infrastructure in an automated way. The service supports a number of network-related vendors including but not limited to Cisco, Juniper, F5, etc.

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Highlights

• All-in-one source code control and DevOps solution
• Standardization of application development and delivery
• Ability to the seamless delivery application to the container platform
• High availability for all the key components

Flexibility

• Work with the Li9 Solution Technology team to implement according to your schedule
• The service delivery takes only three weeks

Outcomes

• Highly available GitLab, all its features are available
• Customer IT staff have skills to efficiently manage GitLab

GitLab with Kubernetes and DevOps Security Features

Our team will help your team to leverage GitLab CI and DevOps functionality, and know-how to integrate GitLab with the Kubernetes containerization platform.

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Highlights

• All-in-one source code control and DevOps solution
• Standardization of application development and delivery
• The main GitLab DevOps and Security features are enabled

Flexibility

• Work with the Li9 Solution Technology team to implement according to your schedule
• The service delivery takes only two weeks

Outcomes

• Customer IT staff have the skills to use basic DevOps features efficiently
• The reference GitLab Project shows how to enable DevOps features

SuperMicro Turn-Key OpenShift Container Solution

Li9, Supermicro, and Red Hat have partnered to develop an integrated best-in-class Kubernetes Solution. It includes Red Hat OpenShift with Data Foundation for persistent storage and is integrated with the high-value, high-performance, and high-availability Supermicro Server Platform.

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Highlights

• Li9 will provide a sample database application implemented to demonstrate key OpenShift features in a customer’s environment.
• OpenShift and Supermicro provide a fully redundant, hot-pluggable solution that includes 2 standby OpenShift Nodes
• The Supermicro Server configurations are optimized, tested, and certified for OpenShift.

Flexibility

• Work with the Li9 Solution Technology team to implement according to your schedule
• Complete architecture, installation, and implementation of production-ready, high-availability, high-performance, and secure OpenShift Kubernetes solution in a customer’s environment within 3 weeks.

Outcomes

• Customer IT staff will have skills to efficiently manage Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform through knowledge transfer, automation, and process documentation.

GitLab On-Prem Managed Service

Ongoing operations and support for your GitLab deployments on any GitLab-supported platforms. Managed services help you simplify your GitLab deployment and maintenance and reduce operational overhead and complexities. This service allows you to focus on your business and we will take care of your GitLab daily operations.

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Highlights

• SRE team helps you to perform ongoing support of your GitLab environment(s)
• Fill gaps in internal skills and resources
• Application onboarding assistance by our SRE team

Flexibility

• 24×7 or 9×5 or 12×5 support model
• Any timezone
• We can support any existing installation or provision new GitLab instances if it is needed

Outcomes

• Fully managed from infrastructure to daily operations

Red Hat OpenShift Cluster with Persistent Storage

Expert design and implementation service to deliver Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in a Public Cloud, Virtualization Platform, or on Bare Metal. The solution comes with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as a persistent storage implementation for OpenShift that allows for running both stateless and stateful applications.

The service allows developers and IT organizations to rapidly adopt enterprise-grade Kubernetes application development and deployment so they can focus on what matters most, their applications.

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Highlights

• OpenShift cluster delivery on your choice of infrastructure
• Get up and running with OpenShift in an automated manner

Flexibility

• Run stateful and stateless applications
• Service supports OpenShift deployment in AWS/ GCP/ Azure/ VMware/ RHEV and on bare metal

Outcomes

• A ready-to-go OpenShift cluster deployed on your choice for the underlying infrastructure
• Fully integrated container-native persistent storage based on OpenShift Data Foundation

Dedicated DevOps Engineering Services

As your company evolves, the once-effective processes and approaches begin to slow down the pace of innovation. This is when you should think about inviting a Li9 DevOps expert to join your tech team. A Li9 engineer will introduce a culture of continuous improvement, build better processes between programmers and operations, advise on the appropriate set of tools for them, and make your DevOps infrastructure scalable, secure, and stable.

We deliver exceptional technology solutions for world-class businesses in every industry, from dynamic startups and SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

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Highlights

• Assistance of an Expert Level DevOps engineer
• Increase the capacity, security, and scalability of your infrastructure
• Solutions that provide efficient collaboration between the programmers and the operations teams
• Li9 engineers are experienced and certified with modern IT technologies and techniques.

Flexibility

• Permanent or temporary DevOps engineering assistance for a modern IT solution
• Support all time zones
• Wide list of supported DevOps technologies
• Short or long term

Outcomes

• Complete setup DevOps Infrastructures that leverage the latest solutions and techniques
• Extension of your team’s capabilities
• Understandable processes and approaches that can be used by your internal resources beyond Li9’s engagement

OpenShift Application Delivery with Hands-On Training

An OpenShift hands-on training that helps you to start deploying your application in OpenShift smoothly. The training helps to understand OpenShift architecture, its application delivery objects that you will be using on a daily basis like Namespace, Pod, Service, Route, Deployment, etc. Hands-on labs will help you to practice application delivery using the OpenShift client utility and OpenShift Web Console. The training does not require any OpenShift or Kubernetes knowledge.

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Highlights

• One week of OpenShift application delivery hands-on training

Flexibility

• Up to 10 students
• For the lab’s customers will be using can use Li9’s OpenShift environment

Outcomes

• Understanding OpenShift architecture and application delivery with OpenShift
• Hands-on exercises of using our lab OpenShift instances
• You will be able to run your applications using OpenShift best practices

GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

A GitLab configuration and pipeline development service that focuses on your application delivery automation from source code to production. Your manual or partially-automated processes will be moved under GitLab CI to speed up application delivery. For every application, your service produces a pipeline that builds your application from source code, performs tests, publishes artifacts, and delivers the application to all your environments after sufficient testing.

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Highlights

• GitLab configuration and GitLab CI pipeline development service to automate application delivery
• Testing automation

Flexibility

• We can start implementing GitLab pipelines even if you do not have any application delivery automation
• We may create CI, CI/CD, or CD only pipelines
• Delivery to Kubernetes/OpenShift, Public clouds, or other application hosting platforms

Outcomes

• End to end automation of application delivery processes
• GitLab is used as a standard application delivery tool
• CI/CD processes are implemented using GitLab CI
• All necessary integrations are implemented

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Managed Service

Ongoing operations and support for your OpenShift deployments. Managed services help you simplify your OpenShift deployment and maintenance and reduce operational overhead and complexities. This allows developers and IT organizations to rapidly adopt enterprise-grade Kubernetes application development and deployment so they can focus on what matters most, their applications.

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Highlights

• SRE team helps you to perform ongoing support of your OpenShift environment(s)
• Fill gaps in internal skills and resources
• Application onboarding assistance by our SRE team

Flexibility

• 24×7 or 9×5 or 12×5 support model
• Any timezone
• OpenShift 4. x and 3. x can be supported
• We can support any existing clusters or provision new clusters if it is needed

Outcomes

• Fully managed from infrastructure to daily operations
• Enhanced security with continuous patching

  Application Delivery Automation

Li9 Technology Solutions implements CI/CD processes and pipelines where every commit to an application source repository is properly built, tested, certified, and delivered up to Production. 

This service focuses on automation implementation that builds the application from its source code, configures a temporary testing environment, deploys the application, and runs application tests. 

If all tests succeed, the pipeline will release a new version of the application. The process is triggered every time developers commit to a featured branch. This service helps to deliver multiple application releases a day and improves application quality at the same time. 

      Outcomes                  ● A ready to go infrastructure, processes and automation to make sure if your application changes are tested properly on a                                              temporary testing environment

Every application needs changes to introduce new features, deliver security and bug fixes or improve documentation. In most cases the change delivery process is complex since it requires building an application from source code, running unit tests, packaging the application, creating a testing environment, deploying the application to the testing environment, running functional/performance/security/UI tests, and finally, if everything went well, deploying the application. That complexity reduces innovation speed, increases testing efforts, and significantly decreases change delivery speed.

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Our service helps to deliver your application changes faster to production due to a significant level of automation at every stage: 

• Identify new changes 
• Build application from source code 
• Create a new temporary testing environment 
• Deploy the application to the testing environment 
• Run automated tests 
• Release a new version of the application (usually producing a release image) ● Deliver the application to the next environment 
• Apply GitOps Infrastructure-as-Code approach 

The “Build and Release on every commit” service helps to 

• Increase innovation speed
• Increase product delivery speed
• Increase capabilities to own and deploy all layers of a system
• Increase application code quality

Multiple developers can work on the same application using different branches and our automation will make sure that everyone gets an individual testing environment. 

Why Li9? 

Li9 leverages our expertise with traditional and emerging technologies combined with our experience in open source and commercial products to create secure and automated best-in-class DevOps solutions that utilize public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. 

We provide strategy, architecture, implementation services, and software to National and Global customers across all industries. This allows Li9 to apply proven best-practice structures, processes, and solutions to new IT environments, positioning them for secure and exponential growth.

High Level Architecture

Principles and Key Capabilities 

• Build and release on every commit using a dedicated JIRA namespace ● Only working code can be merged and delivered 
• Early feedback 
• Multiple test environments at the same time
• Manual code review 
• Automatic delivery up to PROD if release manager approves the change 

Delivery approach 

• Start small 
• Add changes incrementally
• Keep it simple

Customer responsibilities

The following items must be in place or provided for the Li9 team to quickly and successfully deliver the solution: 

Access to Compute Platform or Servers: The project team needs temporary remote access to your compute platform to complete the work involved. Target platforms may vary – private or public cloud, on-premises servers or virtual machines, source control system. 

Provide Service Prerequisites: The service requires a number of customer-provided items. Please review the full list of prerequisites in the “Service Prerequisites” chapter. 

Assistance During Implementation: For the Li9 team to complete implementation work and debug issues we may uncover, we must have access to customer staff with responsibility for various infrastructure roles, including admin access rights to virtualization platforms, networking equipment, etc. 

Timely Participation: To keep projects on schedule and ensure the necessary personnel will be available, both parties must adhere to agreed-upon plans and provide ample notice of any changes to those schedules. 

Service Prerequisites and Dependencies 

Kubernetes/OpenShift: This service assumes Kubernetes is an application delivery platform. We will need a working Kubernetes cluster with an admin access level. 

Version Control System: The project relies on Version Control. We would expect a number of GIT repositories to be accessible with RW access rights. It would be great if you already have GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket access. 

Assumptions 

• Li9 is on the customer-approved vendor list 
• All services are delivered remotely 
• All prerequisites are delivered on time before the start of the project. Missing or incomplete items may cause project delays 
• Customer provides all necessary contacts, engineering support, and compute/network/storage resources continuously for a one-month time frame 

Out of scope 

● Anything not listed in this document