Importance of Openshift in the current industry and its use cases
Containers are a great way to build and deploy apps because they are so effective.
As the use of containers grows, the difficulty of managing containers through the entire IT infrastructure grows exponentially, necessitating the use of a container management framework at the enterprise level.
While containers can be thought of as a next-generation approach to virtualization, they share one downside with virtual machines: container sprawl (rather than VM sprawl). Given that containers can be deployed in far higher numbers than virtual machines, managing provisioning, deployment, tracking, and repairs of multiple containers across your IT architecture can be extremely challenging.
Container platforms allow you to easily provision, test, deploy, scale, and run your containers across multiple hosts and operating environments, as well as perform automated health checks and ensure high availability in planned workloads.
Containers are now viable for enterprise applications thanks to platforms like these, including Red Hat’s OpenShift.
The Openshift framework includes a comprehensive collection of command-line tools as well as a multi host web console for container orchestration across your entire environment.
It also facilitates rapid scalability of hundreds of instances across thousands of nodes, as well as automated application builds and container health management.
Benefits for developers:
Source-to-Image (S2I) is a toolkit and workflow that transforms the source code into a deploy able Docker image and uploads it to the image registry.
A Docker file is no longer needed.
It blends source code with a builder image from the Docker registry’s integrated repository.
If you’re a developer, I’m guessing you already know how to code and push it to Git, so there’s nothing new here…
Create: A developer can use their software version control solution to push code to be developed and run on OpenShift, or OpenShift can be combined with a developer’s own automated build and continuous integration/continuous deployment framework.
Here’s where S2I comes in handy.
Deploy: OpenShift orchestrates the location of application containers and manages the application to ensure that it is accessible to end users.
Manage: You can track, debug, and tune your software while it’s running in the cloud. Automatically scale the application or assign capacity ahead of time.
Ford Motor Company partnered with Red Hat and Sysdig to implement a container-based environment, allowing for faster distribution and better maintenance.
Ford Motor Company strives to offer mobility options to its clients, including dealerships and parts distributors, at affordable prices.
Ford modernized its legacy, stateful applications using a container-based cloud architecture based on Red Hat OpenShift and backed by Sysdig technology to accelerate delivery and simplify maintenance.
Ford increased its productivity with Container as a Service Platform.
Ford wanted to modernize its legacy, stateful applications and simplify its hardware usage in its datacenters by using container technology, application programming interfaces (APIs), and automation. Ford selected Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Quay after reviewing several Kubernetes solutions.
Ford started looking for an enterprise partner providing commercially funded open source solutions to help operate containers in production and promote creative experimentation after conducting tests and proofs of concept (POCs) of container technology.
Ford has reduced time to market by centralizing and standardizing its application development environment and compliance analysis for a consistent multicloud experience using OpenShift Container Platform.
OpenShift’s automation features, for example, help Ford deploy new clusters more quickly.
The company’s change from a conventional, waterfall approach has helped these changes. These improvements are enhanced by the company’s shift from a traditional, waterfall approach to iterative DevOps processes and a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) workflow. Now, some of the same processes for stateful workloads take minutes instead of months, and developers no longer need to focus on underlying infrastructure with self-service provisioning. These improvements extend to Ford’s IT hosting, where the company has seen a significant productivity improvement for CaaS support. Dealers and plant operators gain access to new features, fixes, and updates faster through Ford’s multitenant OpenShift environment.
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