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Personas

Persona Responsibilities Not responsible for Required skills
OpenShift cluster administrator - Provision/install the cluster
- Configure compute, network, storage (i.e. compute infrastructure)
- Install gitOps and pipelines operator (ArgoCD and Tekton technologies)
- Creates required cluster-wide resources
- Install common pipelines and tasks used by product tenants
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- Very little knowledge of products installed in the cluster, for example MQ or ACE
- Delegates cluster security admin to Cluster security administrator
- Strong skills in Kubernetes administration and Kubernetes operations
- Working knowledge of DevOps: practices, tools, implementation
OpenShift cluster security administrator - Responsible for administering OCP cluster security
- Responsible for implementing organization wide security practices Works with both cluster admin and tenant product admin
- Responsible for administering tenant product security
- Security artifacts have the same structure for different tenant products
- Unlikely to have knowledge of tenant products such as MQ, ACE - Strong security skills
- Strong Kubernetes skills administration and operations
OpenShift cluster tenant product administrator - Implements CICD DevOps for tenant product such as MQ or ACE
- Can add tenant product specific cluster resources
- Delegates cluster security admin to OCP cluster security administrator - Good skills in Kubernetes administration and Kubernetes operations
- Good knowledge of DevOps: practices, tools, implementation
- Good application development experience using containers and Kubernetes
- Basic/working knowledge tenant product such as MQ or ACE
Tenant product administrator - The product/integration administrator
- May have some knowledge/experience of Kubernetes
- Working/strong admin skills for tenant product, e.g. MQ or ACE
- Basic knowledge of Kubernetes
Tenant product developer - The developer who writes an application program that uses MQ
- The integration developer who authors an ACE integration flow
- Maintains development assets in source repository
- No knowledge of Kubernetes required - Working/strong developer skills for tenant product, e.g. MQ or ACE
DevOps leader - Is an expert in in DevOps
- Establishes initial GitOps configuration at a customer
- Works in close partnership with OCP Cluster administrator and cluster tenant administrator
- Establishes/fixes/updates/evolves the DevOps resources deployed to the cluster
- Ensures that DevOps infrastructure evolves in a well governed manner
- Ensures the DevOps infrastructure is tested before it is rolled out
- Strong Kubernetes skills administration and operations
- Strong knowledge of DevOps: practices, tools, implementation
- Basic work knowledge of how tenant products such as MQ, ACE interact with Kubernetes
Site reliability engineer (SRE) - A Kubernetes engineer responsible for diagnosing and fixing issues with the cluster
- Under time pressure to get failed service(s) back up and running
- No knowledge of tenant products such as MQ, ACE - Strong Kubernetes skills administration and operations
- Working knowledge of DevOps: practices, tools, implementation