Red Hat OpenShift installation & hardening
Plan cluster installation, networking, access controls and hardening for your environment.
Solution Primary · Consulting
Red Hat OpenShift consulting
Build a container platform your teams can operate with confidence. We help plan, implement and improve Red Hat OpenShift across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- Istio
Where we can help
When the platform needs a clearer next step.
- A new OpenShift platform needs a production-ready installation and security plan.
- Application deployments are manual, inconsistent or difficult to roll back.
- Cluster upgrades, monitoring and support processes need clearer operational ownership.
Services
Hands-on support, from design to delivery.
CI/CD, GitOps & DevSecOps pipelines
Establish CI/CD and GitOps workflows with repeatable deployment and security checks.
Application modernisation to containers
Assess application readiness and plan a staged move into containers.
Day-2 operations, monitoring & support
Develop monitoring, upgrade and support practices for day-2 operations across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or hybrid infrastructure.
MicroStrategy on OpenShift · Pre-deployment review
OpenShift readiness checklist
Confirm the evidence behind each item with your platform team and vendor. OpenShift is an emerging deployment option, not a required migration from AWS, other cloud or on-premises environments.
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MicroStrategy version compatibility
Include patch levels and the planned upgrade path.
Verify the support matrix, prerequisites and service scope for this exact combination—not Kubernetes support alone.
Review database drivers, metadata repository, identity integration and existing reports before committing.
Container support
Check image versions, licensing and the vendor-supported packaging; do not assume a VM installation can be containerised unchanged.
Confirm OpenShift compatibility, installation permissions and lifecycle / upgrade procedures.
Check security context constraints, service accounts, image scanning and supported configuration without weakening cluster policies.
Infrastructure prerequisites
Use vendor prerequisites and load testing; agree quotas, availability and capacity headroom.
Validate approved routes to data sources, identity providers and artifact registries, including restricted-network requirements.
Confirm supported storage classes, access modes, metadata database compatibility and backup / restore design.
Operational considerations
Agree responsibility for incidents, access, application maintenance and vendor escalation.
Set recovery objectives, rehearse restore procedures and verify alerts, audit logs and secrets handling.
Complete performance and user acceptance testing; document rollback, change control and operational handover.
This checklist tracks your review, not verified compatibility or production approval. Vendor support remains release-specific; an unsupported combination must be resolved before deployment.
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Analytics records progress counts and changes, not which requirements you have reviewed.
Discuss your OpenShift readinessOrganisation experience
Experience across enterprise environments.
- Hilton
- Los Alamos Lab
- CitiBank
- Catamaran
- Giant retail
- Inventiv Health
Selected organisations from our experience. Names are not endorsements; the implementation examples below are illustrative and are not attributed to these organisations.
Project stories · Illustrative, not client work
OpenShift in your industry.
Hypothetical project scenarios across five sectors, showing a possible delivery approach and intended outcomes. These are not real client work, verified case studies or measured results.
End-to-end implementation approach
Customer Managed Cloud (CMC) on OpenShift.
Deploy analytics within your own infrastructure while retaining operational and security control. CMC describes an ownership model, not a separate cloud provider.
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Customer-controlled foundation
Agree cloud account ownership, network boundaries and responsibilities across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or private infrastructure.
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OpenShift readiness
Plan cluster capacity, storage, ingress, identity, secrets and security controls before deploying workloads.
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Analytics deployment design
Confirm the selected MicroStrategy release, packaging, licensing and vendor-supported OpenShift deployment architecture before implementation.
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Integrate & validate
Connect approved data sources, configure access and validate functional, performance and recovery requirements.
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Release & hand over
Agree deployment automation, change control, backup and restore procedures, monitoring and operational ownership.
Practical deliverables
A plan your team can act on.
- Platform readiness and architecture review
- Security and deployment recommendations
- Application modernisation roadmap
- Operations runbooks and team handover
Scope and deliverables are agreed around your environment, priorities and team.
A clear path through the engagement.
Assess
We audit your current platform, data and team to find what's slowing you down.
Design
A clear target architecture and roadmap, sized to your budget and timeline.
Deliver
Hands-on senior engineers build, migrate and tune — onsite, remote or blended.
Enable
Documentation, training and ongoing support so your team owns the result.
Built around your environment
Clear priorities. Practical delivery. Lasting ownership.
Start with the business decision
Define the reporting, performance or platform problem first. Agree the users, data dependencies and acceptance criteria before choosing the implementation approach.
Make governance part of delivery
Consider access, trusted metric definitions, release compatibility and operational responsibility alongside the technical design—not after rollout.
Leave a maintainable foundation
Plan validation, documentation and knowledge transfer around the people who will own the platform. A successful handover matters as much as the initial deployment.
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Your challenge.
A clear next step.
Discuss your Red Hat OpenShift requirements with Solution Primary. Add any other platforms involved in your project below.
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