Overview
OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 went GA on August 9, 2017. You can read more about the release and new features here. In this article we will setup a standard non-HA environment that is perfect for PoCs or labs. Before we begin, let’s explain OpenShift for those that may be starting their OpenShift journey today. OpenShift is a complete container application build + run-time platform built on Kubernetes (Container Orchestration) and Docker (Container Packaging Format). Organizations looking to adopt containerization for their applications need of course a lot more than just technology, (Kubernetes and Docker), they need a real platform. OpenShift provides a service catalog for containerized applications, huge selection of already certified application runtimes + xPaaS services, a method for building containerized applications (source to image), centralized application logging, metrics, autoscaling, application deployments (Blue-Green, A/B, Canary, Rolling), integrated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, integrated docker registry, load balancing / routes to containerized apps, multi-tenant SDN, security features (SELinux, secrets, security context), management tooling supporting multiple OpenShift environments (CloudForms), persistent storage (built-in Container Native Storage), automated deployment tooling based on Ansible and much, much more. OpenShift is a platform that runs on any infrastructure, from bare-metal to virtualization to public cloud (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), providing portability across cloud infrastructure for containerized applications. All of these things together is what truly enables organizations to move to DevOps, increase application release cycles, speed up innovation cycles, scale efficiently, gain independence from infrastructure providers and deliver new capabilities faster with more reliability to their customers.
