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Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) [and OSD] clusters is currently developing a hibernation feature, allowing clusters to be shut down and resumed.

Availability

OCM Hibernate is currently under "Technology Preview" status and is not GA...yet.

Article: Technology Preview: Hibernating and Resuming ROSA Clusters

In order to access Cluster Hibernation feature, you must have a organizational capability in https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/service/ocm-resources/-/blob/master/data/uhc-stage/orgs/

capabilities: 
  - key: capability.organization.hibernate_cluster
    value: "true"

Usage

Hibernate and Resume work on the following cluster types:

  • OSD - CCS - AWS
  • OSD - CCS - GCP
  • Rosa Classic

Hibernate/Resume has not yet been implemented for Rosa HCP.

Hibernate a cluster

  1. Create an OSD or Rosa Classic cluster, wait until it gets into a Ready state.
  2. In the Cluster List row actions for the cluster, select "Hibernate Cluster"

image 3. In the Hibernate cluster dialog, click on "Hibernate cluster" button.

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The cluster will go thru "Powering down" and then "Hibernating"

Resume a cluster

  1. In the cluster list row actions for the cluster select "Resume from Hibernation"

image 2. In the Resume from hibernation dialog, click on "Resume cluster"

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The cluster will go thru "Resuming" and then to "Ready (limited support)".