OPENSHIFT

What is openshift?

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. The family's other products provide this platform through different environments: OKD serves as the community-driven upstream (akin to the way that Fedora is upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux), OpenShift Online is the platform offered as software as a service, and Openshift Dedicated is the platform offered as a managed service.

The OpenShift Console has developer and administrator oriented views. Administrator views allow one to monitor container resources and container health, manage users, work with operators, etc. Developer views are oriented around working with application resources within a namespace. OpenShift also provides a CLI that supports a superset of the actions that the Kubernetes CLI provides.

ADVANTAGES OF USING OPENSHIFT

IT staff productivity: Application developers and DevOps teams are able to develop more application and functionalities needing less time to dedicate to the OpenShift Platform, increasing the company’s productivity. The applications developed using OpenShift will need less management time also during the production phase.

Company productivity: OpenShift satisfies the need of high quality and functional applications and business services.

IT infrastructure costs reduction: developing on an OpenShift platform needs less servers for the testing and the production phases because of the containerization, microservices and multitenancy support.

Reduction of the users’ productivity risk: the applications developed on an OpenShift platform show less disruptions, improving the production times.

HOW FORD USES 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.