Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3 on Google Cloud Engine Chris Murphy, Peter Schiffer Version 1.6, 2016-11-05 Table of Contents Comments and Feedback . 2 1. Executive Summary. 3 2. Components and Configuration . 4 2.1. GCE . 5 2.1.1. Compute Engine . 5 2.1.2. Solid-state persistent disks . 5 2.1.3. Custom Images and Instance Templates . 6 2.1.4. Load Balancing and Scaling . 6 2.1.5. Compute Engine Networking . 7 2.1.6. Regions and Zones . 9 2.2. Cloud Storage and Container Registry . 9 2.3. Cloud DNS. 10 2.3.1. Public Zone . 10 2.4. Cloud Identity and Access Management . 11 2.5. Dynamic Inventory . 11 2.6. Bastion . 12 2.7. Nodes . 13 2.7.1. Master nodes . 13 2.7.2. Infrastructure nodes . 13 2.7.3. Application nodes . 13 2.7.4. Node labels . 13 2.8. OpenShift Pods . 14 2.9. Routing Layer . 14 2.10. Authentication . 15 2.11. Software Version Details . 15 2.12. Required Channels. 15 2.13. Tooling Prerequisites . 16 2.13.1. gcloud Setup. 16 2.13.2. Ansible Setup . 16 2.13.3. GitHub Repository . 16 3. Provisioning the Infrastructure . 17 3.1. Preparing the Environment . 17 3.1.1. Red Hat Subscription Manager . 17 3.1.2. Download RHEL Image . 18 3.2. Preparing the Google Cloud Engine Infrastructure . 18 3.2.1. Sign in to the Google Cloud Platform Console . 18 3.2.2. Create a new GCE Project . 19 3.2.3. Set up Billing . 20 3.2.4. Add a Cloud DNS Zone . 21 3.2.5. Create Google OAuth 2.0 Client IDs . 22 3.2.6. Fill in OAuth Request Form . 23 3.2.7. Download and Set Up GCE tools . 25 3.2.8. Configure gcloud default project . 25 3.2.9. List out available gcloud Zones and Regions. 25 3.3. Prepare the Installation Script . 26 3.4. Running the gcloud.sh script . 30 4. Finishing the Installation . 31 4.1. Validate the Deployment . 33 4.1.1. Running the Validation playbook again . 33 4.2. Operational Management . 34 4.3. Gathering Host Names . 34 4.4. Running Diagnostics . 34 4.5. Checking.