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Learn OpenShift

By : Denis Zuev, Artemii Kropachev, Aleksey Usov
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Learn OpenShift

By: Denis Zuev, Artemii Kropachev, Aleksey Usov

Overview of this book

Docker containers transform application delivery technologies to make them faster and more reproducible, and to reduce the amount of time wasted on configuration. Managing Docker containers in the multi-node or multi-datacenter environment is a big challenge, which is why container management platforms are required. OpenShift is a new generation of container management platforms built on top of both Docker and Kubernetes. It brings additional functionality to the table, something that is lacking in Kubernetes. This new functionality significantly helps software development teams to bring software development processes to a whole new level. In this book, we’ll start by explaining the container architecture, Docker, and CRI-O overviews. Then, we'll look at container orchestration and Kubernetes. We’ll cover OpenShift installation, and its basic and advanced components. Moving on, we’ll deep dive into concepts such as deploying application OpenShift. You’ll learn how to set up an end-to-end delivery pipeline while working with applications in OpenShift as a developer or DevOps. Finally, you’ll discover how to properly design OpenShift in production environments. This book gives you hands-on experience of designing, building, and operating OpenShift Origin 3.9, as well as building new applications or migrating existing applications to OpenShift.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to adjust Dockerfile to be able to run in OpenShift. We also explained how to build applications from Dockerfile, how to use oc new-app to initiate a Docker build, and finally how to use oc start-build to start the new build from the existing build config.

In the following chapter, we are going to talk about the most frequently used application images that are already available on Docker Hub. But every now and then it is required to build a custom image that contains custom software or is aligned with company security policies/standards. We are going to learn how OpenShift automates the build process through the S2I build strategy, which is one of the main advantages of OpenShift, and how it allows you to build an image from your application's source code and then run it as a container.

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