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Overview of Kubernetes and OpenShift

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Limitations of Containers

As the number of containers managed by an organization grows, the work of manually starting them rises exponentially.

Enterprises need:

  • Easy communication between a large number of services.

  • Resources limits on applications regardless of the number of containers running them.

  • To respond to application usage spikes to increase or decrease running containers.

Kubernetes Features

  • Service discovery and load balancing

  • Horizontal Scaling

  • Self-Healing with user defined health checks

  • Automated rollout and rollback

  • Secrets and configuration management

  • Operators


Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) is a set of modular components and services built on top of a Kubernetes container infrastructure.

RHOCP adds the capabilities to provide a production PaaS platform such as remote management, multitenancy, increased security, monitoring and auditing, application life-cycle management, and self-service interfaces for developers.

RHOCP features:

  • Integrated developer workflow

  • Routes

  • Metrics and logging

  • Unified UI


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