The recently released Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) offering from Microsoft and Red Hat provides a managed OpenShift deployment on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The integrations of ARO into the rest of the Azure ecosystem work in a manner very similar to that of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which makes sense given they are both Kubernetes offerings – OpenShift uses the standard Kubernetes project with additional capability well suited to enterprise use.

I’ll be creating a few posts about various aspects of that integration.

The services that ARO rely on from the Azure catalogue are listed below. Not all of them are required of course – for example you could use the OpenShift built-in container registry or any other private container registries instead of using the Azure Container Registry. However the point of this post is to talk about the integrations that do exist.

• Azure Portal
• Azure Container Registry
• Azure File and Disk storage
• Azure Key Vault (customer managed keys)
• Azure Load Balancer
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics Workspace
• Network Security Group
• Private Link Service
• Public IP Address
• Virtual Machine
• Virtual Network

I’ll update the list above with links as I complete the posts for those topics – and call out the differences between AKS and ARO regarding those integrations – although most of the time they work in exactly the same manner.

~ Mike