No one wants to work when they are unhealthy. The same goes for containers. Why should containers serve traffic when they are NOT healthy enough? And this is where OpenShift Health Checks plays a critical role. OpenShift Health Checks using Liveness and Readiness probes provides the perfect tool to make Read more…
In this post, we will set up OpenShift Environment Variables on a deployment configuration following a step-by-step approach. Environment variables are a key component in any production-level application. Many times, we want to control the runtime behavior of an application using environment variables. Common environment variables can be database credentials, Read more…
In this post, we will look at OpenShift Pull Image feature from one project to another project. This feature may sound not-so-useful initially. However, many enterprise environments use this feature heavily. Basically, this feature allows developers to separate the build process of an application from the deployment process. Often times, Read more…
In this post, we will look at OpenShift NodeJS Application Deployment using the NodeJS builder image available in OpenShift. NodeJS is a Javascript engine that allows us to build web applications as well as APIs. If you want to install OpenShift on your local machine, I have a detailed post Read more…
In this post, we will look at the steps to perform OpenShift Installation on Local Machine using Minishift. As we have seen in an earlier post, OpenShift is a container platform that allows developers to deploy their applications using a Platform-as-a-Service approach. So let’s start with the step-by-step approach. Step Read more…
OpenShift Application Deployment from the web console is a pretty straightforward process. This is because of the variety of builder images that ship with OpenShift. In our previous post, we looked at OpenShift Web Console overview where we also saw several builder images available in the catalog. In this post, Read more…
OpenShift is a container platform by RedHat. Many enterprises (especially banks) are looking to leverage the power of OpenShift for running their workloads. This is because OpenShift lends itself quite well towards a more hybrid approach for cloud deployments. In other words, it allows organizations to avoid going out of Read more…
At face value, Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift don’t appear to be related. Other times, they appear to be competing with each other. Docker vs Kubernetes. Kubernetes vs OpenShift. These debates often come up from time to time. However, in reality, these three platforms come together in wonderful harmony. The hidden Read more…
