OpenShift Introduction

OpenShift is a rock solid platform engineered for the enterprise. It's built on top of Kubernetes and provides many value add features, tools, and services which help to streamline the complete end-to-end container development and deployment lifecycle.  

This introductory level training lesson is designed to bring you quickly up to speed with the key features that OpenShift provides. You'll then get to observe first hand how to launch a new OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 cluster on AWS and then deploy a real world cloud native application into it.

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Learning Objectives

By completing this lesson, you will:

• Learn and understand what OpenShift is and what it brings to the table
• Learn and understand how to provision a brand new OpenShift 4.2 cluster on AWS
• Learn and understand the basic principles of deploying a cloud native application into OpenShift
• Understand how to work with and configure many of the key OpenShift value add cluster resources
• Learn how to work with the OpenShift web administration console to manage and administer OpenShift deployments
• Learn how to work with the oc command line tool to manage and administer OpenShift deployments
• And finally, you’ll learn how to manage deployments and OpenShift resources through their full lifecycle

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for:

• Anyone interested in learning OpenShift
• Software Developers interested in OpenShift containerisation, orchestration, and scheduling
• DevOps practitioners looking to learn how to provision and manage and maintain applications on OpenShift

Prerequisites

To get the most from this lesson, you should have at least:

• A basic understanding of containers and containerisation
• A basic understanding of Kubernetes - and container orchestration and scheduling
• A basic understanding of software development and the software development life cycle
• A basic understanding of networks and networking

Source Code

This lesson references the following CloudAcademy GitHub hosted repos:

• https://github.com/cloudacademy/openshift-voteapp-demo (OpenShift VoteApp Runbook)
• https://github.com/cloudacademy/openshift-s2i-frontendbuilder (OpenShift S2I Frontend Builder)
• https://github.com/cloudacademy/openshift-voteapp-frontend-react (VoteApp Frontend UI)