Learn OpenShift

Preface

OpenShift is an application management platform that leverages Docker as an isolated runtime for running applications and Kubernetes for container orchestration. First introduced on May 4, 2011, it drew heavily from Borg— a container orchestration solution developed by Google engineers for managing hundreds of thousands of containers. In September 2014, it was redesigned, with Docker and Kubernetes becoming its main building blocks, and, since then, it has seen a large number of improvements and a growing community of users and developers. At the time of writing, the most recent version of OpenShift is 3.9, which became generally available on March 28, 2018, with 3.10 under development. Release 3.9 was the next one after 3.7, so technically, ...