May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
160 pages
3h 45m
English
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Chapter 1. The OpenShift Container Platform
The OpenShift platform was launched in May 2011. The source code was made available through an open source project, with anyone being able to download it and use it. Red Hat also offered a supported version of OpenShift for use in enterprise deployments, and a hosted service called OpenShift Online.
OpenShift has always been implemented on top of containers, but technology is always evolving. In June 2013 a major rewrite began to reimplement OpenShift on top of the latest evolving technologies in the container space. Version 1.0 of OpenShift Origin, based around Kubernetes and the Docker container runtime, was released in June 2015. At the time of writing this book OpenShift 3.6 was the latest version, with the 3.7 release imminent and new releases coming out on a quarterly basis.
What exactly is OpenShift, though?
In simple terms, it is a platform to help you develop and then deploy applications to one or more hosts. These can be public-facing web applications, or backend applications including microservices or databases. Applications can be implemented in any programming language you choose. The only requirement is that the application can run within a container.
OpenShift can run anywhere you can run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora. This can be on public or private cloud infrastructure, directly on physical hardware, or using virtual machines.
In this initial chapter you will learn more about the technologies that ...
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