Enterprises everywhere are challenged to provide new services and environments based on hybrid cloud. The new paradigm of using hybrid cloud solutions to meet new business requirements can be challenging.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is designed to show you how to implement a hybrid cloud solution that uses the industry leading hybrid cloud platform (Red Hat OpenShift) on IBM Power based servers. By combining Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Power servers, you can create a highly reliable and scalable cloud environment. We provide hints and tips about how to install your Red Hat OpenShift cluster, and also provide guidance about how to size and tune your environment to meet your user’s expectations.

This publication is suitable for a broad group of readers that are interested in understanding how IBM Power servers can be used in a Red Hat OpenShift environment and how they can take advantage of the benefits that are delivered by an IBM Power based cloud solution, that is, scalability, reliability, and security. This publication provides implementation details and case studies that make this publication especially helpful to system admins and cloud services implementors.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Performance and tuning

Chapter 3. IBM Power processor performance capabilities

Chapter 4. Red Hat OpenShift architecture and design

Chapter 5. IBM Cloud Paks on Red Hat OpenShift running on IBM Power

Chapter 6. Use cases