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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)

OpenShift multi-DC HA design

OpenShift multi-DC is one of the most difficult topics when it comes to OpenShift design and implementation in a scalable and distributed environment. This happens mainly because there are not that many deployments and best practices developed around this topic. It may be relatively easy to deploy an OpenShift cluster in a single data center environment, but when it comes to a multi-DC design, this is where things will get complicated. The reason is that now we have to consider all OpenShift and adjacent components, like networking and storage, to be scalable and highly available across multiple data centers as well. There are two main HA strategies for a design that involves more than one data center:

  • Single OpenShift cluster across all data centers (for example, one cluster per three DCs)
  • One OpenShift cluster per data center (for example, three...