Local development
Last modified by Tommi Tuura on 2026/03/06 12:13
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If for some reason you wish to run OpenShift locally for development and light testing, it is possible using the Codeready Containers software. You will need a RedHat account (for retrieving the pull secret for OpenShift container Images).
Codeready Containers is software similar to minikube, which will start a single virtual machine and a stripped single Node OpenShift environment. The software will additionally change your network setting (among other things DNS) in such a way that all names *.crc.testing will be forwarded to the virtual machines IP address.
- RedHat Developer (create an account if you don’t have one: login → create)
- OpenShift Local on developers.redhat.com → login and choose “install openshift on your laptop”
- Get the installer and pull secret for your operating system.
- Install the software following these instructions.
- NOTE: On Linux only RPM based distros are supported. (rhel/centos/fedora). Installing on Debian/Ubuntu based distros may require manual setup of host machine.