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Learn OpenShift - Second Edition
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Today’s world challenges businesses more than ever – increased competition for customers requires companies to be flexible and responsive to feedback, and to react fast to changing demand. That means that user-facing applications run by modern companies must be able to handle a sudden increase in traffic, and at the same time, use hardware resources efficiently to avoid unnecessary expenses. In the context of OpenShift, that implies the ability of applications to scale automatically based on user demand. Eventually, OpenShift’s capacity must be expanded to accommodate extra replicas of business applications. Doing this manually takes time and human resources, scales poorly, and carries the risk of human error. Another problem is that when extra capacity is no longer needed, idle hardware keeps incurring costs without any value to the business. To circumvent that, we need a mechanism that scales our cluster out automatically...