Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Configuring Virtual Machines To Use External Networks
Red Hat News, Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
The networking architecture of Red Hat OpenShift provides a robust and scalable front end for myriad containerized applications.
Services supply simple load balancing based on pod tags, and routes expose those services to the external network. These concepts work very well for microservices, but they can prove challenging for applications running in virtual machines on OpenShift Virtualization, where existing server management infrastructure is already in place and assumes that full access to virtual machines is always available.
In a previous article, I demonstrated how to install and configure OpenShift Virtualization, and how to run a basic virtual machine. In this article, I discuss different options for configuring your OpenShift Virtualization cluster to allow virtual machines to access the external network in ways very similar to other popular hypervisors.