Learn OpenShift - ebook

Gain hands-on experience of installing OpenShift Origin 3.9 in a production configuration and managing applications using the platform you built

Key Features

• Gain hands-on experience of working with Kubernetes and Docker
• Get a practical approach to managing applications on a cloud-based platform
• Explore multi-site and HA architectures of OpenShift for production

Book Description

Docker containers transform application delivery technologies to make them faster and more reproducible, and to reduce the amount of time wasted on configuration. Managing Docker containers in the multi-node or multi-datacenter environment is a big challenge, which is why container management platforms are required. OpenShift is a new generation of container management platforms built on top of both Docker and Kubernetes. It brings additional functionality to the table, something that is lacking in Kubernetes. This new functionality significantly helps software development teams to bring software development processes to a whole new level.

In this book, we’ll start by explaining the container architecture, Docker, and CRI-O overviews. Then, we'll look at container orchestration and Kubernetes. We’ll cover OpenShift installation, and its basic and advanced components. Moving on, we’ll deep dive into concepts such as deploying application OpenShift. You’ll learn how to set up an end-to-end delivery pipeline while working with applications in OpenShift as a developer or DevOps. Finally, you’ll discover how to properly design OpenShift in production environments.

This book gives you hands-on experience of designing, building, and operating OpenShift Origin 3.9, as well as building new applications or migrating existing applications to OpenShift.

What you will learn

• Understand the core concepts behind containers and container orchestration tools
• Understand Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, and their relation to CRI-O
• Install and work with Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Understand how to work with persistent storage in OpenShift
• Understand and design OpenShift high availability

Who this book is for

The book is for system administrators, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, or any stakeholder who wants to understand the concept and business value of OpenShift.

Denis Zuev is a worldwide IT expert with 10+ years' experience. Some people in the industry think that he is not human, and not without reason. His areas of expertise are networks, servers, storage, the cloud, containers, DevOps, SDN/NFV, automation, programming, and web development; you name it, he can do it. He is also known for his certification achievements. At the moment, he holds the following expert-level industry certifications: RHCI, RHCA.VI, 6xCCIE, 4xJNCIE, CCDE, HCIE, and VCIX-NV. He is a contractor and an instructor who works with top companies, including Cisco, Juniper, Red Hat, and ATT. Artemii Kropachev is a worldwide IT expert and international consultant with more than 15 years' experience. He has trained, guided, and consulted hundreds of architects, engineers, developers, and IT experts around the world since 2001. His architect-level experience covers solution development, data centers, clouds, DevOps, middleware, and SDN/NFV solutions built on top of any Red Hat or open source technologies. He also possesses one of the highest Red Hat certification levels in the world – RHCA Level XIX. Aleksey Usov has been working in the IT industry for more than 8 years, including in the position of infrastructure architect on projects of a national scale. He is also an expert in Linux with experience encompassing various cloud and automation technologies, including OpenShift, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Puppet. At the time of writing, he holds the highest Red Hat certification level in CIS and Russia – RHCA Level XIV.