OpenShift -Industry Use cases
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Welcome you all to this another new article which is about the Redhat OpenShift Container Platform.
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. 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 three kinds of platforms for developers and users.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):
In this platform service provider provides all the hardware devices required to build and manage your application. we can do much customization in IAAS than any other.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
With SaaS, we don’t need to worry about underlying hardware. It is as simple as plug and play, wherein the user has to sign up for the services and start using it.
We can’t do much customization in this platform.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
It can be considered as a middle layer between SaaS and IaaS. These environments are designed in such a way that they can satisfy all the development needs, right from having a web application server with a database.
OpenShift is itself example of PaaS.
OpenShift Architecture:
OpenShift uses the layered approach where each layer is tightly coupled with each other using Kubernetes and Docker cluster. OpenShift is designed to support and manage Docker containers, which are hosted on top of all the layers using Kubernetes.
The main difference between OpenShift and Kubernetes is the concept of build-related artifacts.
In OpenShift, such artifacts are considered first-class Kubernetes resources upon which standard Kubernetes operations can apply. OpenShift’s client program, known as oc, offers a superset of the standard capabilities bundled in the mainline kubectl client program of Kubernetes. Using this client, one can directly interact with the build-related resources using sub-commands.
In addition to this, an OpenShift-native pod build technology called Source-to-Image (S2I) is available out of the box.
Why Use OpenShift?
OpenShift provides a common platform for enterprise units to host their applications on the cloud without worrying about the underlying operating system. This makes it very easy to use, develop, and deploy applications on the cloud.
One of the key features is that it provides managed hardware and network resources for development and testing. With OpenShift, PaaS developer has the freedom to design their required environment with specifications.
OpenShift provides a different kind of service level agreement when it comes to service plans.
- Free: This plan is limited to three years with 1GB space for each.
- Bronze: This plan includes 3 years and expands up to 16 years with 1GB space per year.
- Silver: This is a 16-year plan of bronze; however, it has a storage capacity of 6GB with no additional cost.
Other than the above features, OpenShift also offers an on-premises version known as OpenShift Enterprise.
In OpenShift, developers have the leverage to design scalable and non-scalable applications, and these designs are implemented using HAproxy servers.
Red Hat OpenShift Case studies:
Over 2,000+ innovative companies choose Red Hat OpenShift to help bring their big ideas to life.
Ford Motor Company adopts Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
Ford Motor Company seeks to provide mobility solutions at accessible prices to its customers, including dealerships and parts distributors who sell to a variety of retail and commercial consumers. To speed delivery and simplify maintenance, the company sought to create a container-based application platform to modernize its legacy stateful applications and optimize its hardware use. With this platform, based on Red Hat OpenShift and supported by Red Hat and Sysdig technology, Ford has improved developer productivity, enhanced its security and compliance approach, and optimized its hardware use to improve operating costs. Now, the company can focus on exploring new ways to innovate, from big data to machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Cisco :
Industry: Technology
Region: North America
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Company size: 71,500 employees
To keep pace with customer demand, Cisco, a leading provider of networking solutions, must quickly deliver new IT products and solutions. The challenge is to keep its IT team engaged and productive to fuel innovation. With help from Red Hat, Cisco built its Lightweight Application Environment (LAE), which runs on Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology formerly known as OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat. Now provisioning times have gone from months to minutes, and the Cisco IT team can focus on strategic initiatives.
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