8459ch05.fm Draft Document for Review December 11, 2019 1:55 pm Deployment host Any virtual or physical host that supports Terraform and Ansible. For this book, the deployment host is a virtual machine that is designed to provide a simple  method for deploying OpenShift: GLYPH<SM590000> Minimal operating system based on Red Hat ALT 7.6 Enterprise Linux. GLYPH<SM590000> Terraform for deploying OpenShift Infrastructure. GLYPH<SM590000> OpenShift-Ansible for installing and configure OpenShift. Note:  The deployment host can run on any architecture (for example, x86) that supports  the installation tools. In 6.2, “Setting up the deployment environment” on page 96, you see  an example of how to set up the deployment host on IBM POWER9 systems (ppc64le). Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool for building, changing, and versioning  infrastructure safely and efficiently. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack have a focus on automating the installation and  configuration of the software. Terraform automates provisioning of the infrastructure itself. Terraform 86  Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Power Systems: Volume 1