Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud (ROKS) Skill

ROKS is a fully managed OpenShift offering on IBM Cloud. Clusters run on IBM Cloud infrastructure (VPC or Classic) with IBM managing the control plane. You interact via ibmcloud ks (the container-service plugin) and the standard oc CLI.

Prerequisites

# Install required plugins
ibmcloud plugin install container-service   # provides `ibmcloud ks`
ibmcloud plugin install container-registry  # provides `ibmcloud cr`

# Install oc CLI (matches your cluster's OCP version)
# Download from: https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/
# Or via IBM Cloud console → cluster → OpenShift web console → ? → Command line tools