Infrastructure/cloud provider
As the OpenShift platform is integrated with the infrastructure or cloud provider, some prerequisites are also required, but for now, during the architecture design phase, you basically need to define which provider you will go for and be aware that they have specific prerequisites. We are not covering these pre requisites in this chapter, as this is going to be explained in depth in Chapter 5, OpenShift Deployment.
In that chapter, we will practice the deployment process itself, starting by preparing the infrastructure or cloud prerequisites, setting up installer parameters, storage, network, the virtualization/cloud layer, and so on. However, during the architecture design phase, in general, you don't need to go deeper into these details yet, but just choose which provider to go for and keep in mind some specifications you will have to fulfill for the provider you have chosen.
