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Creating an application

In order to deploy our microservice, first we need to create an application in OpenShift Online, so we will log in to the OpenShift Online console. Remember that we got an URL in an email at the beginning of this chapter (in our example, it was https://console.starter-ca-central-1.openshift.com). Let's open it in our browser.

We may be asked to log in with our credentials, so let's introduce the one that we set up at the beginning of the chapter. The Catalog should appear, showing different application templates to choose from:

OpenShift Catalog

We will choose the second Red Hat OpenJDK 8 application by clicking on ...

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