DevOps with OpenShift

Stefano Picozzi, Mike Hepburn & Noel O’Connor, 2017, DevOps with OpenShift: Cloud Deployments Made Easy

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A comprehensive guide to DevOps with OpenShift, the powerful platform for container-based applications. The authors explain how to implement a continuous delivery pipeline and how to manage containers in a DevOps environment.

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Friday, January 20, 2023

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Friday, November 1, 2024

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What is OpenShift?

OpenShift is a family of containerization software offerings created by open-source software provider Red Hat. According to the company, Kubernetes is the kernel of distributed systems, while OpenShift is the distribution.

At its core, OpenShift is a cloud-based Kubernetes container platform that’s considered both containerization software and a platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

It’s also partly built on Docker, another popular containerization platform.

OpenShift offers consistent security, built-in monitoring, centralized policy management, and compatibility with Kubernetes container workloads. It’s fast, enables self-service provisioning, and integrates with a variety of tools. In other words, there’s no vendor lock-in.

Previously known as Origin, the open-source platform, OpenShift OKD lets developers create, test, and deploy applications on the cloud. It also supports several programming languages, including Go, Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java.