Overview of Kubernetes and OpenShift

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