Azure-docs: Whats the different between az openshift vs az aro deployment? one and the same?

[medavamshi]

What's the different between az openshift vs az aro deployment? one and the same?

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• Content: Introduction to Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Content Source: articles/openshift/intro-openshift.md
• Service: container-service
• GitHub Login: @jimzim
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[Mike-Ubezzi-MSFT]

@medavamshi Thank you for the inquiry. The Azure Resource Optimization (ARO) Toolkit is built upon native Azure serverless technologies leveraging an Azure Automation Account with preconfigured runbooks. With the az openshift option, you are managing Azure Red Hat OpenShift Services. It comes down to cost and supportability. The ARO Toolkit is a lower cost option for non-production environments where the runbooks are contributed by community with no formal support agreement. With Azure Red Hat OpenShift you have a fully supported service that comes with guaranteed SLAs but at a much higher cost.

[medavamshi]

Az aro is the newer 4.x azure redhat openshift deployment . Not related to aro tool kit. I also came to know az openshift is v3.x and az aro is 4.x openshift after I tried both deployments. We were looking to implement Azure Redhat openshift that's 4.x

[Mike-Ubezzi-MSFT]

@medavamshi Thank you for this additional detail. This service is new to our group so I have limited information but, I do see a Red Hat hosted blog: Introducing Azure Red Hat OpenShift on OpenShift 4

Also, this documentation is specific to version 4 but does include supported resources for Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 service and supported resources for Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 service.

[Karishma-Tiwari-MSFT]

@medavamshi Let us know if you need any further help on this.

[medavamshi]

I am looking for a design document for Redhat Openshift 4.x using ARO . Can you please point me to the right direction?

[Karishma-Tiwari-MSFT]

@medavamshi Azure RedHat Openshift lifecycle and architecture is explained here:
https://docs.openshift.com/aro/4/architecture/architecture.html#architecture-overview-image_architecture

Hope that helps.

[Karishma-Tiwari-MSFT]

We will now close this issue. If there are further questions regarding this matter, please tag me in a comment. I will reopen it and we will gladly continue the discussion.