Architecture Planning: Analyze the modern-day IT panorama and design the OpenShift environment to house both digital machines and containerized workloads. This consists of deciding on hardware sources, networking, and garage additives with a purpose to aid OpenStack on OpenShift.

Workload Assessment: Identify which workloads (packing containers and VMs) are pleasant acceptable for OpenShift Virtualization. Assess cutting-edge applications, performance needs, and workload necessities.

Networking Design: Configure virtual networking to make sure seamless communication among containers, VMs, and external services. OpenStack's Neutron service and OpenShift’s network operators play a key position in presenting scalable networking.

Security Framework: Develop a protection approach leveraging OpenShift’s local safety regulations and OpenStack’s identification carrier (Keystone). Ensure function-based get entry to manipulate (RBAC), isolation, encryption, and compliance mechanisms.

Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Plan for the mixing of hybrid or multi-cloud environments if necessary, leveraging Red Hat OpenStack for handling private cloud sources alongside OpenShift for box orchestration.

Red Hat OpenStack Integration: Deploy Red Hat OpenStack to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) abilities. Configure middle offerings consisting of Nova (compute), Cinder (block garage), Neutron (networking), and Glance (image service).

OpenShift Virtualization Installation: Install and configure OpenShift Virtualization to run VM workloads. This entails deploying KubeVirt (the technology that permits VM orchestration) on top of OpenShift.

Storage Integration: Set up shared storage that supports both OpenShift (for bins) and OpenStack (for VMs), making sure continual garage get admission to for both workload sorts.

Networking and Load Balancing: Implement SDN (Software-Defined Networking) configurations the usage of OpenShift SDN or OpenStack Neutron to manipulate virtualized networks. Set up load balancing the usage of offerings like OpenShift Route or OpenStack Octavia for high availability.

CI/CD Pipelines: Establish continuous integration and continuous shipping (CI/CD) pipelines for each VMs and box-based programs. Integrate equipment like Jenkins and GitLab CI with OpenShift’s built-in CI/CD functions.

Monitoring and Management: Implement tracking and alerting systems to song the performance of OpenStack services (thru Telemetry) and OpenShift clusters (thru Prometheus, Grafana). Use OpenShift’s and OpenStack’s local logging solutions for centralized log control.

Disaster Recovery (DR) and Backup: Set up backup, restoration, and high availability for each OpenStack and OpenShift clusters. Implement OpenStack’s native DR skills along OpenShift’s backup solutions.

OpenShift Operators: Install and control OpenShift Operators for automating lifecycle control responsibilities, along with scaling, updates, and healing of containerized and VM workloads.

KubeVirt: Core virtualization generation permitting the orchestration of VMs in OpenShift. KubeVirt permits VMs to be dealt with as pleasant Kubernetes items, managed like containers.

Automation Tools: Use Ansible for automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management of each OpenStack and OpenShift environments.

Identity and Access Management (IAM): Use OpenStack Keystone for dealing with identity offerings and combine with OpenShift’s OAuth for unified get admission to manipulate across the environment.

Performance Tuning: Continuously monitor and tune the overall performance of both OpenStack and OpenShift environments, making sure superior utilization of compute, storage, and networking sources.

Support & Maintenance: Provide ongoing aid for each OpenStack and OpenShift platforms, making sure device balance, software updates, and patches.

Training: Offer training for operations teams on how to manage, troubleshoot, and hold the blended OpenShift and OpenStack environments.