RedHat Open Shift & Its Use Cases
About OpenShift and how it has been used in the industry to solve the problems.
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I hope you all are fine and healthy. I guess you are here to learn about openshift and where it has been used to solve the problem and benefit the industry. So let's get started.
First, let’s talk about what is openshift and why we need it. Let me tell you in very short. We all have been using a system to do our tasks. We are using the OS on top of bare metal. In industry, they use the concept of containerization there; the application is packaged with the library, framework, and configuration files required to run in any environment. It is swift; it can boot an OS in around a few seconds. Now we have to manage this container to keep it alive, scaling up and scale down. Kubernetes is one of the tools which is used in container management. But only Kubernetes is not enough, and many manual works are again required, so we have OpenShift.
OpenShift is a software provided by RedHat, so it is also called RedHat OpenShift. Openshift helps us in making the application lifecycle automatic. It helps connect the end-to-end connection from the developer to the production and helps deploy development and monitoring to keep the system alive. OpenShift is a family of containerization software products developed by Red Hat. Its flagship product is the OpenShift Container Platform — an on-premises platform as a service built around Docker containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
OpenShift is Platform as a Service(PaaS) by RedHat, which helps us develop and deploy our application on the cloud. Here containers are the smallest. When we launch our application, there are various steps involved. At first, our developers develop the code; they will put it on any source code management tool. From there, they have to go to the testing environment and then to the production environment. We need many servers to deploy the application, and each server needs to hold our different modules or application and need to have a copy. After this, we deploy the application, and clients will increase the traffic, and we again need to be managing all the servers to keep them alive. If any changes or updates come in the code, the developer needs to push it testing team need to evaluate and then go on production. So here we can see that a lot of manual effort is involved. We can be sure that there will be many errors in manual effort, and then we may not be able to make the workflow continuous.
How does OpenShift Works?
Openshift is a layering system where each layer is attached to the other using Kubernetes and Docker cluster. It helps in managing the containers which are hosted on the top of Kubernetes. This container can be any application servers or databases. The container holds the lightweight Linux system and Kubernetes support and manages the container orchestrion, and OpenShift manages the launched application from development to deployment with automation.
Kubernetes manages the container, and Openshift adds more security to it, and it also provides monitoring which Kubernetes doesn't. It also helps in self-service provisioning, where Openshift will automate everything. OpenShift can also connect with other tools and help implement more features and wide development using the tools.
Features and Benefits
Here are some of the features and the benefit of openshift:
- Self Service Provisioning: With openshift, the developers can now do what they do the best, i.e., coding and testing. Openshift will help the developer with making everything automated. Openshift can help the developer use the tools and language they are most comfortable with so that the development t can go faster and more accurately.
- Secure Built: We are using the software or a RedHat product, which is best known for its security, so we don't need to worry about security as we can build our application with OpenShift. It includes long-term enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open-source software companies.
- Code and Push: With openshift, it is straightforward to develop. The developer needs to code and push to any SCM tool where the Openshift program will automatically handle and manage all the middle work as programmed. It will be integrated with a different tool to provide all the requirements until the deployment.
Industry Use Cases
Airbus
Airbus is a world-leading multinational aerospace company. It was founded on 18 December 1970 in the Netherlands. They deal with designing and manufacturing commercial aircraft, defense systems, and helicopters.
Airbus is making the transition to providing services on any platform and provision required access to the software-defined by the software. The organization has chosen to create a file for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), using Red Hat OpenShift and other Red Hat technology. Still, it seeks to improve in-house skills and internal integration of rapid, efficient cloud applications development. For this, the Airbus team worked with RedHat Openshift for 6 weeks and learned about building cloud-native applications following DevOps practices.
This helped Airbus to built and demonstrate unified PaaS and reusable components for supporting key business capabilities. They were able to gain hands-on key skills and experience on cloud-native applications using DevOps. They also establish the foundation for significantly faster delivery of their new services.
Ford Motor Company
The Ford Motor Company, commonly known as Ford, is an American multinational automaker founded on June 16, 1903. It has been one of the leading organizations in the automobile market. Ford has developed a lot of variety of automobiles and is located across the globe.
Ford Motor Company seeks to provide mobility solutions at accessible prices to its customers, including dealerships and parts distributors who sell to various 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.
Ford seeks our RedHat Openshift for its solution, and it now has been benefited with improvement in the productivity and development environment with self-service provisioning. They have also enhanced their security with the enterprise technology of RedHat with the continuous monitoring of their product with the help of Sysdig. Ford reduced their hardware cost by running the Openshift on bare metal with the container technology involved.
CONCLUSION
So here was an explanation of OpenShift and how it works, and its benefits. I have also covered how industries have been using OpenShift and how they are benefited from this. OpenShift offers more to the developers and organization, and much other organization is starting to shift towards openshift.
I hope I have provided some insights on OpenShift and some of the use cases. Any suggestion on the blog would be highly entertained, and feel free to connect with me on my LinkedIn.
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