Your responsibilities with using Red Hat OpenShift on Satellite
Learn about cluster management responsibilities that you have when you use Red Hat OpenShift on Satellite clusters. For overall terms of use, see Cloud Services terms.
Overview of shared responsibilities
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a managed service in the IBM Cloud shared responsibility model. Review the following table of who is responsible for particular cloud resources when using Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. Then, you can view more granular tasks for shared responsibilities in Tasks for shared responsibilities by area.
If you use other IBM Cloud products such as Object Storage, responsibilities that are marked as yours in the following table, such as disaster recovery for Data, might be IBM's or shared. Consult those products' documentation for your responsibilities.
Resource | Incident and operations management | Change management | Identity and access management | Security and regulation compliance | Disaster Recovery |
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Data | You | You | You | You | You |
Applications | You | You | You | You | You |
Observability | Shared | IBM | Shared | IBM | IBM |
App networking | Shared | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
Cluster networking | Shared | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
Cluster version | IBM | Shared | IBM | IBM | IBM |
Worker nodes | Shared | Shared | IBM | IBM | IBM |
Master | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
Service | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
Virtual storage | You | You | You | You | You |
Virtual network | You | You | You | You | You |
Hypervisor | You | You | You | You | You |
Physical servers and memory | You | You | You | You | You |
Physical storage | You | You | You | You | You |
Physical network and devices | You | You | You | You | You |
Facilities and Data Centers | You | You | You | You | You |
Tasks for shared responsibilities by area
After reviewing the overview, see what tasks you and IBM share responsibility for each area and resource when you use Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
Incident and operations management
You and IBM share responsibilities for the set up and maintenance of your Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud cluster environment for your application workloads. You are responsible for incident and operations management of your application data.
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Change management
You and IBM share responsibilities for keeping your clusters at the latest container platform and operating system versions, along with recovering infrastructure resources that might require changes. You are responsible for change management of your application data.
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Identity and access management
You and IBM share responsibilities for controlling access to your Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud instances. For IBM Cloud® Identity and Access Management responsibilities, consult that product's documentation. You are responsible for identity and access management to your application data.
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Observability | Provide the ability to integrate IBM Cloud Activity Tracker with your cluster to audit the actions that users take in the cluster. | Set up IBM Cloud Activity Tracker or other capabilities to track user activity in the cluster. |
Security and regulation compliance
IBM is responsible for the security and compliance of Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. Compliance to industry standards varies depending on the infrastructure provider that you use for the cluster, such as classic or VPC. You are responsible for the security and compliance of any workloads that run in the cluster and your application data. For more information, see What standards does the service comply to?.
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Disaster recovery
IBM is responsible for the recovery of Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud components in case of disaster. You are responsible for the recovery of the workloads that run the cluster and your application data. If you integrate with other IBM Cloud services such as file, block, object, cloud database, logging, or audit event services, consult those services' disaster recovery information.
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Applications and data
You are completely responsible for the applications, workloads, and data that you deploy to IBM Cloud. However, IBM provides various tools to help you set up, manage, secure, integrate and optimize your apps as described in the following table.
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