How to install Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes(ACM)

This story is to show how to install Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes.

This was much simpler than I thought and require cpu resources.

Fig 1 explains what functionality Red Hat ACM has.

Red Hat ACM is to manage multiple k8s clusters on hybrid multicloud.

Fig 1. ACM to access Kubernets

1. Require OpenShift platform

In my case, 1 VM openshift platform with 12 vCPU and 32Gmemory.

This is CRC Container platform

crc container platform setting

2. Prepare secrets

I require secret from https://cloud.redhat.com.

get secret from cloud.redhat.com for ACM

click “image pull secret”

create a secret with “Upload configuration file”

create a secret with copied secret from “https://cloud.redhat.com” and type in Secret Name, Authentication Type, and secret.

3. Install Red Hat ACM

Go to “OperatorHub” → “Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes”.

Click “Install”

Click “Install”

click “Install” with default value

click “MultiClusterHub”

type in “imagePullsecret” with created secretname, acm

review deployed pods in project “openshift-cluster-management”

click Routes and “locations” like to red box

ACM home Page

Now I am starting Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes.

dashboard