Managing clusters using Red Hat ACM
As we mentioned previously, one of the features ACM provides is cluster management. The following is a list of some of the operations you can perform with ACM:
- Cluster provisioning
- Import of existing clusters
- Destroying a cluster
- Upgrading a cluster
- Scaling cluster nodes in or out
Check the Further reading section of this chapter to see a link to a complete list of supported operations.
We will not cover how to do all the operations you can perform with ACM in this book, but we will guide you through the process of provisioning a new OpenShift cluster on AWS using ACM, to give you an idea of how easy it is to use the tool.
Cluster provisioning
Currently, in version 2.5, ACM can deploy clusters on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware vSphere, bare metal, Red Hat OpenStack, and Red Hat Virtualization. To do so, you need to first input the provider credentials to be used by ACM during the provisioning process. The...
