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6/30/2026

Building an OpenShift 4.18 Cluster from Scratch: Part 1 – The Network Foundation & Utilities Server
Short summary
Step-by-step guide to deploying OpenShift 4.18 on bare-metal VMs by building the network foundation first. Part 1 covers setting up a utilities server with DNS, DHCP, TFTP/HTTP, and HAProxy—following Red Hat's Platform-Agnostic methodology from the DO322 training course.
- •Comprehensive tutorial for bare-metal OpenShift 4.18 deployment on RHEL 10 virtual infrastructure
- •Part 1 focuses on utilities server configuration with DNS (Bind), DHCP (Kea), TFTP/HTTP, and HAProxy load balancing
- •Includes network topology diagram, actual configuration snippets, and shell commands aligned with DO322 training
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