User Onboarding Documentation

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Logging on to the OpenShift Console

  1. Request an account by opening a ticket a https://osticket.massopen.cloud. Provide your organizational or academic email address (NOT YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL).

  2. Once you receive notification that your account is available, open your browser and navigate to: https://console-openshift-console.apps.oac-prod-workload0.hcp.oac.massopen.cloud Your screen should look like this:

    If your organization has an identity provider you use which is listed the drop down, select that. If not, select Google as your identity provider, and then click Log On.

  3. You will need to verify your email address. CHECK THE EMAIL ADDRESS PROVIDED (INCLUDING YOUR SPAM) for an email from the MOC Alliance.

  4. Once you see the email, click the confirmation link to confirm.

  5. Then log in with the email you provided to the MOC team and press "Continue".

  6. You will be brought to a page that has the terms and conditions. Scroll down and click accept:

    Scroll down until you see the blue accept button...

  7. You will now be logged into the OpenShift web console. It will look like this:

Logging in with the CLI

  1. To get started up with the oc command line tool, click the question mark in the upper right corner and select the "Command Line Tolls" option:

  2. You should see this:

    Download the cli that is compatible with your operating system.

  3. Once you have the oc cli binary, you can log in with your terminal. To do this, go to your terminal and type in:

    oc login --web https://api-external-oac-prod-workload0.hcp.oac.massopen.cloud:6443

    It will take you to your browser where you will see this:

    Follow the steps to log in. When successfully logged in, you should see this:

Checking your quota

There is a resource quota associated with your account. You can view the quota and your current utilization by running:

oc get resourcequota

This will produce output like:

NAME                      REQUEST                                                   LIMIT                                     AGE
project-myproject-quota   pods: 0/20, requests.cpu: 0/10, requests.memory: 0/10Gi   limits.cpu: 0/20, limits.memory: 0/40Gi   24h

Your quota is there just to prevent accidental consumption of resources. If you need a higher quota, contact the Open Accelerator support team by opening a ticket at https://osticket.massopen.cloud.

Accessing OpenShift AI

  1. You may want to not just use the OpenShift console, and want to take a look at at OpenShift AI. To do that, go to the console’s top right corner:

  2. After that you should see OpenShift AI (YOU MAY NOT SEE THE SAME PROJECTS) :

  3. To return to the console, go to the right hand corner and click the 9 squares: