[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Hardware Certification for Ironic driver in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and IPI available October 18, 2021

[Ecosystem Partner Management]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce that on October 18, 2021, the Red Hat Hardware
Certification program will add Ironic tests for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform Installer Provisioned Infrastructure (RHOCP IPI) bare metal
hardware certifications. In addition, we will automatically create new
RHOCP certification listings for all existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
(RHEL 8) certified servers that have passed the RHEL 8 virtualization
tests.

What will be available?

New listings will become available in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog
<https://catalog.redhat.com/> (“the catalog”) for Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform
<https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift> 4.6 and
later. These additions do not change the existing relationship between RHEL
and RHOCP regarding support and inherited certification. They are being
created to make it clearer to customers that systems certified for RHEL 8
are also certified for RHOCP, and to provide customers with a list of
systems that have undergone further testing to demonstrate support for IPI
automated management functionality.

The new entries mirror the established Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)
certification process:


   1.

   We will automatically create the appropriate RHOCP certification listing
   for any server that successfully passes the virtualization tests that are
   part of RHEL 8 certification. This matches the procedure we follow today to
   create RHOSP Compute Node listings.
   2.

   Optionally, additional testing with the Ironic service may be conducted
   with RHOCP and the server's BMC to achieve the same new bare metal IPI
   feature in the RHOCP certification listing. This is analogous to the "Red
   Hat OpenStack Platform for Bare Metal'' certification listing in the
   current catalog.


To simplify the IPI certification process, if a BMC was recorded as part of
the specification during the original RHEL 8 certification, a supplemental
RHOCP certification for IPI will automatically be opened for x86_64
servers. A supplemental certification may also be manually opened at any
time after the RHEL and RHOCP certifications are complete.

In contrast to the way we list RHOSP Compute Node and Bare Metal
certifications separately, a single catalog entry will be provided for
RHOSP with or without IPI listed as appropriate. IPI will be a searchable
feature in the catalog.

Please note, the RHOCP certification entries will not include a role
qualifier (nodes, controller, etc.). Partners, system integrations, and
solution providers will continue to guide customers through their hardware
configuration and selection process to ensure the selected certified
systems and configuration thereof meet both the RHOSP minimum hardware
requirements for the chosen role and customer expectations.

When will this be available?

The partner certification window will open during the week of October 5th
and the certification tooling, workflow, and guides will also become
available to partners at that time. The guides will further explain how to
open any necessary RHOCP and IPI certifications as well as execute the
tests. The testing will require working knowledge of RHOCP and an available
installation of the product.

We will send a follow up email to inform you when the window is opened. At
that time Red Hat will also automatically create the base RHOCP
certifications from all completed RHEL 8 certifications present in the
catalog. Processing these and any partner created RHOCP certifications will
then begin.

Completed certifications will remain unavailable to the general public in
the catalog until the 18th.

On October 18th, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform will appear in the
catalog for customers for the first time.

What do I need to do?

No action is required on your part at this time. If you intend to support
IPI installations of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform we encourage you
to begin IPI certification testing when the window opens. Please reach out
to Ecosystem Partner Management if you have any questions about these new
listings.


We value your ongoing participation in Red Hat certification, software
development, and testing efforts. Thank you for your continued partnership.
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact
Ecosystem Partner Management.


Regards,

The Red Hat Certification Team
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