Openshift The New Start Of DevOps
What is OpenShift?
OpenShift is a cloud development Platform as a Service (PaaS) hosted by Red Hat. It’s an open-source, cloud-based, user-friendly platform used to create, test, and run applications, and finally deploy them on the cloud.
OpenShift can manage applications written in different languages, such as Ruby, Node.js, Java, Perl, and Python. One of the key features of OpenShift is extensible, which helps the users support the application written in other languages.
OpenShift helps organizations move their traditional application infrastructure and platform from physical, virtual mediums to the cloud.
OpenShift supports a huge variety of applications, quickly developed and deployed on the OpenShift cloud platform. OpenShift supports three kinds of platforms for developers and users.
Why OpenShift?
OpenShift enables efficient container orchestration, allowing rapid container provisioning, deploying, scaling, and management. By streamlining and automating the container automation process, OpenShift enables cybersecurity developers to focus on accelerating application development, updates, and product distribution.
Features of OpenShift
- Operator framework
- OpenShift service mesh
- CoreOS
- Serverless
- Standardized developer workflows
- Multiple environment support (dev/test/prod)
- Continuous integration and release management
- Managing builds and deployment
How OpenShift works?
OpenShift has layered architecture where each and every layer tightly bound with other layer with Kubernetes and Docker. One the main component of OpenShift is Kubernetes pods, Kubernetes is responsible for deploying, and managing the containers. Kubernetes cluster can have multiple masters and worker nodes, that ensures there is no single point of failure in the setup. Second is centrailized version control system (eg. GitHub), OpenShift take the code for the image from there and creates new images as we required.
Benefits of implementing OpenShift
- Innovate and go to market faster
- Accelerate application development
- Enterprise-grade, container-based platform with no vendor lock-in
- Enable DevOps and department-wide collaboration
- Self-service provisioning
How BMW use OpenShift :
Using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the BMW Group could provide a more secure and stable platform that allowed for container-based deployments. It also allows traditional applications to coexist alongside new, cloud-native and container-based applications.
“The BMW Group shows just how an organization can embrace agile methodologies and modern container technologies to deliver business value and an enhanced customer experience.” Ashesh Badanivice, president and general manager of OpenShift Red Hat said
The BMW Group wanted a more flexible application infrastructure to provide more agile development and IT operations methodologies and RedHat Openshift container platform was best suited.