The Strategic Challenge: Modernizing at Speed and Scale

In today’s competitive landscape, organizations are looking to modernize their application infrastructure with container orchestration to accelerate development and increase efficiency. However, deploying a secure, highly available, and production-ready container platform like Red Hat OpenShift from scratch is a complex and time-consuming undertaking. It requires deep, specialized expertise to navigate critical architectural decisions, security configurations, and storage integrations correctly.

Without a clear, expert-led path, teams risk facing significant project delays, costly misconfigurations, and an unstable foundation that cannot scale with business needs. The goal for every enterprise is to adopt OpenShift quickly, but it is paramount that it is done right the first time to avoid technical debt and future roadblocks.

The Solution: An Accelerated Path to Production OpenShift

The Li9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Pilot is an expert-led, 2-4 week engagement designed to accelerate your adoption of enterprise-grade container orchestration. Your project will be led by a Li9 OpenShift Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) who will establish a production-ready, best-practices Red Hat OpenShift environment. This engagement provides a robust, customizable foundation upon which you can build a full-scale production deployment with confidence.

The Li9 Implementation Journey: A Phased Approach to Success

Our proven methodology ensures a structured, low-risk deployment from start to finish, tailored to your unique environment.

Phase 1: Discovery We begin with a collaborative workshop with your key stakeholders to gather detailed requirements, perform a thorough assessment of your existing infrastructure, and define the precise scope for the pilot deployment. This ensures our solution aligns perfectly with your business and technical goals.

Phase 2: Design Leveraging the insights from the discovery phase, our architects develop a detailed OpenShift architecture plan. This includes designing the network topology, defining security considerations, and planning the integration of persistent storage solutions. The architecture is explicitly designed for high availability, typically spanning at least three resiliency groups.

Phase 3: Deployment Our certified engineers install and configure the OpenShift cluster, adhering strictly to Red Hat best practices and your specific requirements. We handle the complexities of the installation, ensuring a stable, secure, and performant platform is ready for your workloads.

Phase 4: Integration A container platform does not exist in a vacuum. We configure basic user group integration with your existing identity management systems (e.g., Active Directory, LDAP) and establish essential security measures. We also integrate a persistent storage solution to ensure your containerized application data is safe and highly available.

Phase 5: Demo & Knowledge Transfer To validate the platform and showcase its capabilities, we deploy a sample containerized application. Following this, we provide extensive hands-on training and thorough documentation to ensure your teams are proficient, empowered, and ready to manage and extend their new OpenShift environment.

The Business Value Proposition: Accelerate, Stabilize, and Empower

By partnering with Li9 for your OpenShift Pilot, you gain a powerful, unified toolkit and a clear, accelerated path to application modernization.

• Accelerated Time-to-Value: Rapidly deploy a baseline OpenShift environment and experience accelerated development cycles with a documented boost in developer productivity.
• Enhanced Stability: Minimize downtime with a remarkable reduction in unplanned outages, built upon a highly available architecture that is production-ready from day one.
• Future-Proof Foundation: Gain a platform that adapts as your needs evolve, supporting everything from on-premises to hybrid cloud and edge deployments for unparalleled flexibility.
• Empowered Teams: We facilitate comprehensive knowledge transfer sessions to empower your teams to effectively manage and extend your new OpenShift environment, fostering long-term, in-house expertise.
• Guaranteed Best Practices: Leverage the expertise of our RHCAs to ensure your environment is built for security, resiliency, and scalability, avoiding common pitfalls and technical debt.

Beyond the Pilot: Full Enterprise Solutions

Li9 can provide additional services to expand this Pilot solution into a full production OpenShift environment, including advanced security hardening, monitoring and logging, CI/CD pipeline configuration, disaster recovery planning, and application migration assistance.

Why Choose Li9 for Your Migration Journey?

Li9 are experts in automation and application modernization. Red Hat has designated Li9 as a Partner who is an industry expert in digital transformation, with a demonstrated ability to envision, shape, and execute roadmaps for customers of all sizes. We combine best practices with your unique requirements to help you achieve your business and technology goals.

Deliverables

Upon completion of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Pilot, you will receive:

• A Functional OpenShift Environment: A production-ready Red Hat OpenShift cluster deployed on your infrastructure (private or public cloud) and tailored to your specifications.
• High-Availability Architecture: A fully configured cluster designed for resilience, typically spanning at least three availability zones or resiliency groups.
• Integrated Storage and Security: Integration with a persistent storage solution to safeguard application data and the implementation of essential security features to protect the platform.
• Identity Management Integration: Basic integration with your existing user and group management system to control access.
• Live Application Demonstration: A sample containerized application deployed and running on the new cluster to showcase functionality.
• Comprehensive Documentation: Detailed documentation covering the environment’s architecture, configuration, and security settings.
• Empowered Staff: In-depth knowledge transfer sessions to ensure your team can effectively manage and operate the OpenShift environment post-engagement.