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3.x Local development

Last modified by aulembin@helsinki_fi on 2025/02/04 07:02

Local development with Openshift

If for som ereason 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. 

  • https://developers.redhat.com/ (create an account if you don't have one: login → create)
  • https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift → login and choose "Clusters" → "Create cluster" →  "Red Hat Openshift Container Platform" → "On your laptop" 
    • Get the installer and pull secret for your operating system.
    • Install the software following the instructions. ( https://code-ready.github.io/crc/ )
    • NOTE: On Linux the best supported are RPM based distros (rhel/centos/fedora), apparently from 1.20 onwards Ubuntu desktop will also be slightly better supported. On Linux you will anyway have to make sure that your system has a select few libvirt/qemu/kvm libraries installed.


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Contact information

The recommended contact for questions is:

https://helsinkifi.slack.com #kontit 

All changes related to resources for the project/namespace should be emailed to:

grp-openshift-owner@helsinki.fi (platform administration and development)tike-ohjelmistotuotanto@helsinki.fi (program development)