Openshift And Its Use Cases..

Openshift is one of the tool developed by Red Hat .It manages end to end cycle. It gives single unified solution. It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) .It is an open source development platform, which enables the developers to develop and deploy their applications on cloud infrastructure. It is very helpful in developing cloud-enabled services.

Openshift is also known as Enterprise Great Tool .Launching the app from the code is one use case and launching the app till deployment is done by openshift.

Inside openshift they are using kubernetes cluster so we can say that openshift built on the top of the kubernetes.

Openshift have two versions OKD (upstream) It is performed on minshift .and RHOCP (downstream).

The reasons why they choose Red Hat OpenShift

Customers that chosen to adopt OpenShift came from different legacy environments, including providers’ platforms and homemade tools, with which was very difficult to achieve agility, scalability and quality. In OpenShift they found an open source solid and flexible development platform supporting also important high-level IT initiatives like the migration to the hybrid public cloud, containerization and microservices.

Benefits of Red Hat Openshift are..

• Helps developers delivering high-quality applications and functionalities in a faster way;
• Improves business and efficiency results satisfying the customers’ and users’ needs;
• The continuous application management needs less time;
• Reduces the applications’ developed costs associated to the infrastructure and platforms’ development.
• Highly Available Masters.
• Multizone Clusters.
• Identity/Access Management.
• Monitoring and logging.
• Key Protect.

OpenShift Container Platform Architecture

OpenShift Container Platform adds:

• Source code management, builds, and deployments for developers
• Managing and promoting images at scale as they flow through your system
• Application management at scale
• Team and user tracking for organizing a large developer organization
• Networking infrastructure that supports the cluster

How Is OpenShift Container Platform Secured?

OpenShift Container Platform provides a self-service web console to ensure that teams do not access other environments without authorization. Access to the master uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) Access to the API Server uses X. 509 certificates or OAuth access tokens.

Red Hat OpenShift Market Share and Competitors

Some Companies Using OpenShift like..

- SABRE

Travel technology giant Sabre is leveraging the OpenShift Container Platform as the foundation of its Next Generation Platform initiative. The new platform will enable the company to deliver more sophisticated, modern technology solutions for its various clients across all verticals within the travel and hospitality industry, including airlines, hospitality, and global businesses with high travel volumes.

- DEUTSCHE BANK

As a leading bank serving private, corporate, and fiduciary clients, Deutsche Bank has embraced digital transformation. The bank wanted to improve the experience of both its banking customers and users of its back-end technology, including employees and external providers and developers who use the platform to build and run applications. Using Red Hat® solutions, Deutsche Bank built an open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to simplify DevOps collaboration, optimize capacity, and increase efficiency, cutting end-to-end application development time from 6–9 months to 2–3 weeks.

- BMW

As a world leader in automotive engineering for over a hundred years, BMW continues to innovate both their production processes and their end-products.BMW’s innovation featuring ConnectedDrive, the digital service powering features within BMW vehicles .The BMW Group needs to access, analyze, and apply large amounts of data collected from sensors used during road tests to support its automated vehicle initiatives. Created by DXC Technology using Red Hat software, the BMW Group’s new data platform helped the group reduce development time with faster, more accurate driving simulations and data analytics.

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