Open Source For You — December 2017

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Figure 1: Types of OpenShift services

Figure 2: OpenShift Dedicated supports application images, database images,
Red Hat JBoss middleware for OpenShift, and Quickstart application templates Figure 3: OpenShift Online dashboard

Types of OpenShift services

OpenShift Origin: OpenShift Origin is an open source

application container platform from Red Hat, which has

been released under the Apache licence. It uses the core

of Docker container packaging and Kubernetes container

cluster management, which enables it to provide services

to create and manage containers easily. Essentially, it

helps you to create, deploy and manage applications in

containers that are independent of the operating system and

the underlying infrastructure.

OpenShift Online: This is Red Hat’s public

cloud service.

OpenShift Dedicated: As its name suggests, this is

Red Hat’s offering for maintaining private clusters. Red Hat

OpenShift Dedicated provides support for application images,

database images, Red Hat JBoss middleware for OpenShift,

and Quickstart application templates. Users can get this on

the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform

(GCP) marketplaces.

OpenShift Container: OpenShift Container or OpenShift

Enterprise is a private PaaS product from Red Hat. It includes

the best of both worlds—containers powered by Docker and

the management provided by Kubernetes. Red Hat announced

OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 on August 9, 2017.

OpenShift features

ƒ In OpenShift, we can create applications by using

programming languages such as Java, Node.js, .NET,

Ruby, Python and PHP.

ƒ OpenShift also provides templates that allow you to build

(compile and create packages) and release application

frameworks and databases.

ƒ It provides service images and templates of JBoss

middleware. These are available as a service on OpenShift.

A user can build (compile and create packages) applications

and deploy them across different environments.

ƒ OpenShift provides full access to a private database copy

with full pledge control, as well as a choice of datastores

like MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis,

and SQLite.

ƒ Users can benefit from a large community of Docker-

formatted Linux containers. OpenShift has the capability

to work directly with the Docker API, and unlocks a new

world of content for developers.

ƒ Simple methods are used to deploy OpenShift, such as

clicking a button or entering a Git push command.

ƒ OpenShift is designed to reduce many systems

administration problems related to building and deploying

containerised applications. It permits the user to fully

control the deployment life cycle.

ƒ The OpenShift platform includes Jenkins, which is an

open source automation server that can be used for

continuous integration and delivery. It can integrate unit

test case results, promote builds, and orchestrate build

jobs. This is done by using upstream and downstream

jobs, and creating a pipeline of jobs.

ƒ OpenShift supports integration with IDEs such as Eclipse,

Visual Studio and JBoss Developer Studio. It is easier to

use any of these IDEs and work with OpenShift.

Getting started with OpenShift Online

Let’s take a quick tour of OpenShift Online. Go to

https://manage.openshift.com.