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Creating new applications in OpenShift

The first and most essential command to run in OpenShift is oc new-app. This command is similar to Kubernetes's kubectl run, but oc new-app is way more powerful and works a little bit differently. We are going to show you how oc new-app works in detail later in this chapter.

The best way to test out the oc new-app command is to create a new project and then run it over there:

$ oc new-project project1Now using project "project1" on server "https://127.0.0.1:8443".You can add applications to this project with the 'new-app' command. For example, try:    oc new-app centos/ruby-22-centos7~https://github.com/openshift/ruby-ex.gitto build a new example application in Ruby.

The command output tells us to run the ...