Hi folks,

In this post I talke about a very interesting I have only come across recently. It’s called OpenShift Container Platform. It’s an on-premise platform-as-a-service built around Linux containers, orchestrated by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. OpenShift is developer by Red Hat.

It’s an amazing tool that makes it easy to manage your applications if you use Kubernetes to orchestrate your app containers.

It provides a nice web interface that allows you view the various Kubernetes resources for your app like services, pods, stateful sets, etc. It also allows you view logs, terminals, events, metrics, etc. for your various Kubernetes pods. This makes it a lot easier to administer your application and means you don’t have to always resort to CLI tools like kubectl to monitor your application resources.

OpenShift also provides a really nice CLI tool called oc that allows you check on your Kubernetes resources from a terminal. oc is a tool that provides a superset of the functionality of kubectl.

The main difference between OpenShift and vanilla Kubernetes is the concept of build-related artifacts. In OpenShift, such artifacts are first-class Kubernetes resources upon which standard Kubernetes operations can apply.

So, if you plan to use Kubernetes to manage app deployment, I recommend giving OpenShift a shot. That’s all for now. Till next time, happy software development.

References

1. OpenShift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenShift