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Real-World Company Using OpenShift 4.14 in Production

Imagine a FinTech company (like a bank or payment platform) running critical apps.

They need:

  • Security 🔒
  • High Availability 🏢
  • Scalability 📈
  • CI/CD automation 🛠
  • Multi-cloud disaster recovery 🌎
  • Monitoring and compliance 📊

They deploy OpenShift 4.14 like this:


🧩 Architecture Diagram (High Level)

                 +--------------------------+
                 |     External Clients      |
                 +--------------------------+
                            |
                            ↓
                  Load Balancer (F5/AWS ALB)
                            |
                            ↓
             +---------------------------------+
             |      OpenShift 4.14 Cluster      |
             |  (3 Master + 6 Worker Nodes HA)  |
             +---------------------------------+
                            |
      +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
      |         |         |         |         |         |
  Core Apps  Microservices  Monitoring  GitOps/CD  Storage
 (e.g., API, (Payments,       (Prometheus,  (ArgoCD,     (Ceph, EBS,
 Billing UI)  Notifications)   Grafana)      Tekton)      NetApp)

🔥 Infrastructure Components

LayerDetails
OpenShift PlatformOpenShift 4.14 running on AWS EC2 (or Bare Metal, Azure, GCP)
Masters3 Control Plane nodes (HA)
Infra Nodes2 nodes dedicated for ingress, monitoring, and registry
Worker Nodes4+ nodes running application workloads
StorageEBS for dynamic PVCs, Ceph for persistent apps, S3 object storage
BackupVelero for backup and recovery
NetworkingOVN-Kubernetes CNI, secured Ingress, firewall/VPC

🛠 What Happens Inside the Cluster

AreaDescription
Internal Image RegistryApps built in CI pipelines are pushed here
ImageStreamsTrack versions of app images (dev ➔ staging ➔ prod)
CI/CD PipelinesTekton Pipelines build, test, and deploy automatically
GitOpsArgoCD monitors Git Repos and auto-syncs deployments
MonitoringBuilt-in Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager
LoggingLoki stack or EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana)
OperatorsCertified operators installed for databases (Postgres, Mongo), monitoring, and security
SecuritySCCs enforced, Pod Security Admission, OAuth with SSO (Keycloak), network policies applied
TLS everywhereAll apps exposed externally use Let’s Encrypt or company-provided TLS certificates via Ingress Controller
Service Mesh (optional)Istio/Red Hat Service Mesh for complex apps needing traffic routing, retries, circuit breaking

📦 Application Lifecycle

StageWhat Happens
Dev Commit CodeDeveloper pushes code to GitHub/GitLab
CI BuildTekton triggers build, builds container image
Push to DevImage pushed to internal OpenShift registry, deployed to app-dev project
Promote to StagingAfter tests pass, ImageStream tag promoted to app-staging
Promote to ProdApproval step (manual or automatic) ➔ ImageStream tag promoted to app-prod
Monitoring AlertsPrometheus tracks app metrics, AlertManager sends Slack/email alerts if thresholds are breached

🌐 External Access

  • OpenShift Ingress Controller (based on HAProxy) manages incoming traffic.
  • Load Balancer (e.g., AWS ALB) in front distributes traffic across multiple router pods.
  • Routes expose services securely (HTTPS, TLS termination at edge).

Example public routes:

AppRoute
API Gatewayhttps://api.example.com
Billing Apphttps://billing.example.com
Admin Dashboardhttps://admin.example.com

🔒 Security and Compliance Setup

AreaOpenShift Feature Used
AuthenticationOAuth server integrated with SSO (Keycloak/LDAP)
AuthorizationRole-based access control (RBAC) by projects/namespaces
Network SecurityOpenShift NetworkPolicy to isolate apps
Pod SecuritySCCs (Security Context Constraints) enforced
Vulnerability ScanningQuay Clair or Prisma Cloud scans container images
ComplianceOpenShift Compliance Operator runs CIS Benchmarks, PCI scans

📈 Real Company Example Flow

Developer commits code ➔
Tekton builds & tests ➔
ArgoCD deploys to dev ➔
QA tests ➔
Promotion via ImageStream ➔
ArgoCD syncs to production ➔
Prometheus monitors everything ➔
AlertManager informs on failures

✅ Minimal human error
✅ Rollbacks easy (previous image tags exist)
✅ Full GitOps-driven deployments
✅ Multi-cloud flexibility (AWS, Azure, GCP)


🎯 Conclusion: Why Companies Use OpenShift 4.14

ReasonExplanation
Enterprise-ready KubernetesCertified platform with support
Security firstBuilt-in SCC, OAuth, Compliance tools
Automation nativeGitOps, Pipelines, Operator Framework
Multi-cloud / hybrid cloudROSA, ARO, or on-premises
Easy cluster upgradesOver-the-air OpenShift upgrades
Developer happinessGreat GUI console, developer tools

📋 Bonus: Technology Stack in This Company

StackTools
CI/CDTekton Pipelines, ArgoCD
MonitoringPrometheus, Grafana
LoggingLoki or EFK
StorageEBS, Ceph, S3
Service Mesh (optional)Istio/Red Hat Service Mesh
SSOKeycloak, LDAP
DatabaseOperators for Postgres, MongoDB
SecurityQuay Clair, Prisma Cloud, SCCs, Compliance Operator

🚀 That’s the Real World!

✅ OpenShift is NOT “just Kubernetes” — it’s Kubernetes plus everything companies need to run safely and scale.

✅ OpenShift 4.14 keeps getting closer to pure Kubernetes, but still adds the real-world enterprise features Kubernetes users have to stitch together manually.


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