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Getting Started with OpenShift
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Getting Started with OpenShift

by Steve Pousty, Katie Miller
May 2014
Beginner
104 pages
2h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

One of the newest and most promising trends in application development and DevOps is the rise of Platform as a Service (PaaS). If you haven’t heard of it yet, you will learn more in Chapter 1. Trust us for now when we say it promises to greatly simplify application development and system administration work for web applications. It is also one of the few new technologies that actually helps developers and sys admins to get along, allowing each to trust/enable the other and be happy that their needs are being met. This book is focused on giving the application developer a quick yet ample introduction to Red Hat’s PaaS, OpenShift.

Fundamentally, the reason you want to use OpenShift is because you like writing applications, not administering servers. With just a couple of changes to the way you develop applications, you can spin up your web server and database with one command. You will no longer need to keep a server operating system up-to-date, patch the web servers, maintain the DNS, and do all the other tasks that distract you from writing code. By the end of reading this guide you will be all set to build, deploy, and host your applications on OpenShift.

Who Should Read This Book

First and foremost, those who are impatient! You don’t want to sit down and read a lengthy “Authoritative Guide” or a “Reference Manual.” You want a nice succinct book to get you going on OpenShift as quickly as possible. If you like the platform and can successfully develop an initial application ...

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