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= Preparing the {oda} environment

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Before you can deploy an {product-title} cluster on {oda-first}, you must prepare the {oda-short} environment.

.Prerequisites

* You have reviewed the requirements and additional prerequisites described in section 1 of the link:https://www.oracle.com/a/otn/docs/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-19.pdf[Red{nbsp}Hat {product-title} on {oda} Deployment Guide] (Oracle documentation).

.Procedure

. Complete the pre-deployment tasks as described in section 2 of the "Red{nbsp}Hat {product-title} on {oda} Deployment Guide".

. Complete the final environment preparations as described in sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the "Red{nbsp}Hat {product-title} on {oda} Deployment Guide".